and carried all injuries and problems patiently for the love of God.Christine de Pisan seemed to accept the women’s role in the late Medieval society. She did not seem angry about the fact that women were treated as semi-inferior to men. But, there was one aspect of female behavior that she wanted to change. She addressed the women who were prostitutes and told them this: “We say this to you: you miserable women so indecently given to sin, open your eyes with recognition” (171). The author’s advice to the prostitutes was to change their ways now, while they still had the chance to lead a respectable life according to the “rules” of the ladies of Virtue.In the late Medieval and Renaissance time period, women had a strict standard to live up to. They should love their husbands, respect them, and obey their commands. The men in return fulfilled the women’s needs by supplying them with whatever they needed. The men and women lived with a mutual respect between themselves....
