Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector

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.

• | Author: Jane Jane Chance
• | Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• | Publication Date: Jul 03, 1997
• | Number of Pages: 176 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0859914402
• | ISBN-13: 9780859914406