Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector

Name: Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector
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Translated with introduction, notes, and interpretative essay 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 read the myth in order to improve human character.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 178
Release Date:: 1999-02-01
Publication Date:: 1997-07-03
Publisher:: D.S.Brewer
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0859914402
ISBN13:: 9780859914406
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 232 g
Height:: 14 cm
Width:: 21.6 cm
Thickness:: 1 cm

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