'A welcome addition to medieval history, giving us a window into
the lives of women that many people only know by name, if at all.'
PHILIPPA GREGORY, author of The Other Boleyn Girl and Normal WomenA
spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us
into the minds and lives of medieval women.What was life really
like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about
sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives? And how can
we hear the stories of women from this period?Few women had the
luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval
times. But remarkably, there are at least four extraordinary women
who did. Those women were: Marie de France, a poet, Julian of
Norwich, a mystic and anchoress, Christine de Pizan, a widow and
court writer, and Margery Kempe, a ",no-good wife",. In their own
ways these four very different writers pushed back against the
misogyny of the period. Each of them broke new ground in women's
writing and left us incredible insights into the world of medieval
life and politics.Hetta Howes has spent her working life uncovering
these women's stories to give us a valuable and unique historical
biography of their lives that challenges what we hold to be common
knowledge about medieval women in Europe. Women did earn money,
they could live independent lives, and they thought, loved, fought
and suffered just as we do today.This mesmerising book is an
unforgettably lively and immersive journey into the everyday lives
of medieval women through the stories of these four iconic women
writers, some of which are retold here for general readers for the
first time.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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