El testimonio de los damas medievales: Leonor de Córdoba y Elena Quotanner

[eng] Leonor López de Córdoba ¿born around 1390 in Cordoba¿ is the first female Spanish writer. She composed a work entitled Memoirs, which combines elements of confessions, autobiographies, memoirs and spiritual testimonies. Leonor's Memoirs has interesting similarities in style, subject and p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Cortés Timoner, María del Mar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/125787
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/125787
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Autobiografies
Memòries
Escriptores
Literatura medieval
Autobiographies
Memoirs
Women authors
Medieval literature
López de Córdoba, Leonor, 1362 o 1363-1420
Kottannerin, Helene
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Sumario:[eng] Leonor López de Córdoba ¿born around 1390 in Cordoba¿ is the first female Spanish writer. She composed a work entitled Memoirs, which combines elements of confessions, autobiographies, memoirs and spiritual testimonies. Leonor's Memoirs has interesting similarities in style, subject and purpose with Elena Quottaner's Memoirs. Elena was born in Austria around 1400; she is the first German woman writer and her Memoirs is the first autobiographic narrative in German literature. Leonor and Elena were lady-in-waiting of widowed queens and they played an important role in the unstable political situation in their respectives countries. Both composed interesting works that are different but complementary to the 'official historical texts'.