"A transcription into modernized early modern English of The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes, Brian Ansley's 1521 translation of Christine de Pizan's famous and epochal Livre de la citâe des dames (c. 1405), the first version to be printed in any language and the only printed version available to readers for the next four and one half centuries"--

Christine de Pizan (c.1365-c.1431) was the first professional European woman of letters. Brian Anslay (d. 1536) was a trusted member of the royal household of Henry VII. Christine Reno is professor emerita of French and Francophone studies at Vassar College. Karen Robertson is a senior lecturer emerita of English and women's studies at Vassar College.