Around 1418, Christine withdrew from public court life to the Dominican convent at Poissy amid the turmoil of civil war and the Hundred Years' War.
By around 1418, Christine de Pizan had effectively withdrawn from active public and court literary life, retreating to the Dominican convent at Poissy, France, where her daughter was a nun.
This retreat coincided with a period of severe political turmoil in France: the ongoing Hundred Years' War with England had intensified, and the kingdom was riven by the bitter civil conflict between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions. Paris itself fell into chaos, with massacres and political assassinations disrupting the court culture that had sustained Christine's decades-long career.
Her withdrawal from public life represents both a personal retreat from danger and a natural conclusion to an extraordinarily productive career spanning roughly three decades, during which she had produced dozens of works ranging from poetry to political philosophy, history, and moral treatises.
Even in retirement, Christine did not cease writing entirely — her final known work, celebrating Joan of Arc, would emerge from this period of relative seclusion. Her retreat to Poissy illustrates the precariousness of even a successful woman's public career amid the violent instability of the late medieval French monarchy, and foreshadows the end of her remarkable professional life.