Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector

by Christine de Pizan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859914402
• ISBN13: 9780859914406
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.4"