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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Dustcover slightly discloured and price cropped. Actual book is excellent. 1965 copy. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Christine de Pisan is one of the most in- teresting French authors of the later Middle Ages. She was a professional writer with patrons in court circles and her works include biography moralizing treatises with a strong patriotic note and a large quantity of verse. In the past she has tended to be neglected but during the last thirty years her work has come to be better known. She is now regarded as one of the really important French writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Altogether she composed about 300 bal- lades 70 rondeaux and 20 virelais mostly between 1393 and 1412. The introduction notes and glossary will be of particular interest to the student of medieval French literature.