Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 204 g
Reihe: Library of Medieval Women
Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 204 g
Reihe: Library of Medieval Women
ISBN: 978-0-85991-440-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
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.
