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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jane ChancePublisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers Imprint: Wipf & Stock Publishers Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.916kg ISBN: 9781532688973ISBN 10: 1532688970 Pages: 698 Publication Date: 15 November 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAn extraordinary achievement and a fitting final volume in the Medieval Mythography series. It contains stunning, original treatments of the three enormous figures of the later Middle Ages: Dante, Boccaccio, and Christine de Pizan. --J. Stephen Russell, author of Chaucer and the Trivium: The Mindsong of the Canterbury Tales There is nothing comparable available in any language. Chance's first-rate knowledge of the texts in a variety of languages is equaled by her knowledge of the secondary literature as well as contemporary literature. --Jon Solomon, Robert D. Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign """An extraordinary achievement and a fitting final volume in the Medieval Mythography series. It contains stunning, original treatments of the three enormous figures of the later Middle Ages: Dante, Boccaccio, and Christine de Pizan."" --J. Stephen Russell, author of Chaucer and the Trivium: The Mindsong of the Canterbury Tales ""There is nothing comparable available in any language. Chance's first-rate knowledge of the texts in a variety of languages is equaled by her knowledge of the secondary literature as well as contemporary literature."" --Jon Solomon, Robert D. Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign" An extraordinary achievement and a fitting final volume in the Medieval Mythography series. It contains stunning, original treatments of the three enormous figures of the later Middle Ages: Dante, Boccaccio, and Christine de Pizan. --J. Stephen Russell, author of Chaucer and the Trivium: The Mindsong of the Canterbury Tales There is nothing comparable available in any language. Chance's first-rate knowledge of the texts in a variety of languages is equaled by her knowledge of the secondary literature as well as contemporary literature. --Jon Solomon, Robert D. Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Author Information"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." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |