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Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector

Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector

Jane Chance, Jane

Paperback

Series: Library of Medieval Women

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0859914402
ISBN13: 9780859914406
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Jul 3 1997
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.40
Language: 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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