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- Author: Jane Jane Chance
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
- ISBN-10: 0859914402
- ISBN-13: 9780859914406
- Format: 13.5 x 21.3 x 1.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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Christine de Pizan (1364-?1430) was the first French woman poet to make her living by the pen, and the first female interpreter of classical myths; she held enormous power in the French court and influenced late medieval culture in France and in England in a number of ways. The Letter of Othea to Hector, her most popular work, is a series of a hundred verse texts about a mythological figure or moment, with prose moral glosses explaining how to readthe myth in order to improve human character. It is translated here with introduction, notes, and interpretative essay.
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- Author: Jane Jane Chance
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
- ISBN-10: 0859914402
- ISBN-13: 9780859914406
- Format: 13.5 x 21.3 x 1.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
Christine de Pizan (1364-?1430) was the first French woman poet to make her living by the pen, and the first female interpreter of classical myths; she held enormous power in the French court and influenced late medieval culture in France and in England in a number of ways. The Letter of Othea to Hector, her most popular work, is a series of a hundred verse texts about a mythological figure or moment, with prose moral glosses explaining how to readthe myth in order to improve human character. It is translated here with introduction, notes, and interpretative essay.
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