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The mythic world of Juno, Jupiter's consort, is one of flesh and begetting, of suffering and death, and of poetry itself. Exploring the relationship between that realm of the classical gods and the sphere of medieval mythographers, Jane Chance illuminates the efforts of medieval writers to understand human existence and the forces of nature in relation to Christian truth.

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Fascinating as an exercise in mapping out a major current in the Western intellectual tradition . . . Brilliant in its ability to make extremely complex ideas comprehensible. --Julian Wasserman, Loyola University in New Orleans A Singular contribution to humane scholarship; it represents the most coherent and inclusive attempt to account for the reception of classical myth from the fifth to the thirteenth centuries. --J. Stephen Russell, Hofstra University

"""""Fascinating as an exercise in mapping out a major current in the Western intellectual tradition . . . Brilliant in its ability to make extremely complex ideas comprehensible."""" --Julian Wasserman, Loyola University in New Orleans """"A Singular contribution to humane scholarship; it represents the most coherent and inclusive attempt to account for the reception of classical myth from the fifth to the thirteenth centuries."""" --J. Stephen Russell, Hofstra University"

Fascinating as an exercise in mapping out a major current in the Western intellectual tradition . . . Brilliant in its ability to make extremely complex ideas comprehensible. --Julian Wasserman, Loyola University in New Orleans A Singular contribution to humane scholarship; it represents the most coherent and inclusive attempt to account for the reception of classical myth from the fifth to the thirteenth centuries. --J. Stephen Russell, Hofstra University

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"Jane Chance is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of English Emerita at Rice University and recipient of an honorary doctorate from Purdue University (2013) as well as NEH and Guggenheim Fellowships. Author or editor of twenty-four other books, she has published Woman as Hero in Old English Literature (1986; rpr. 2005), and The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (2007), as well as Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (1996). Her most recent book is Tolkien, Self and Other: ""This Queer Creature"" (2016). She is also Series Editor of the Library of Medieval Women (Boydell and Brewer), offering classroom translations of works by medieval women."

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