The Book of the Mutability of Fortune - Couverture souple

De Pizan, Christine; Smith, Geri L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0866985700 ISBN 13 : 9780866985703

Editeur : Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US, 2017

Synopsis

Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1431) has long been recognized as France's first professional woman of letters, and interest in her voluminous and wide-ranging corpus has been steadily rising for decades. During the tumultuous later years of the Hundred Years' War, Christine's lone but strong feminine voice could be heard defending women, expounding the highest ideals for good governance, and lamenting France's troubled times alongside her own personal trials. In The Mutability of Fortune, Christine fuses world history with autobiography to demonstrate mankind's subjugation to the ceaselessly changing, and often cruel, whims of Fortune. Now, for the first time, this poem is accessible to an English-speaking audience, further expanding our appreciation of this ground-breaking woman author and her extraordinary body of work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Geri L. Smith, Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Central Florida, is author of The Medieval French Pastourelle Tradition: Poetic Motivations and Generic Transformations (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009), among other works on late medieval poetry and theater.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0866985700
• ISBN 13: 9780866985703
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
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• Personne responsable: non disponible