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Secondhand book for saleHelene Kottanner; trans. Maya Bijvoet Williamson.
The Memoirs of Helene Kottanner (1439-1440), translated from the German with Introduction, Interpretive Essay and Notes.
Published Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998.
Series: The Library of Medieval Women.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Size: 133×216×9mm.
Page count: xi,79pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has the usual mild scuffs on its covers, a little wear on the edges and corners; pages starting to yellow with age a bit; otherwise doesn’t look heavily used, the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.
This item £10.00
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Publisher’s price £17.99]
Weight without packaging: 150g.
From the publisher’s blurb: “Helene Kottanner was servant and confidante of the widowed Queen Elizabeth of Hungary (1409-1442). This is her first-person account of the part she played in the theft of the holy crown of St. Stephen from the treasury of the royal stronghold Visegrad on 20 February, 1440, when the crown was smuggled out of the stronghold hidden in a pillow. It was immediately rushed on a sled to the queen, who within hours of its arrival at her castle in Komorn was delivered of a baby boy, Ladislaus Posthumous (1440-1457), who was crowned king of Hungary three months later. Helene Kottanner’s account is unconsciously revealing about herself and her ambitions, allowing a rare glimpse into the inner world of a late-medieval woman.”
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