Illuminated Illustration showing Hector, from the epistle of Othea to Hector; (The boke of knyghthode), by Christine de Pizan (1364-1430). Pizan 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

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Illuminated illustration showing Hector, from the epistle of Othea to Hector; (The boke of knyghthode), by Christine de Pizan (1364-1430). Pizan 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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