Ricerc@Sapienza

This collection investigates Queen Elizabeth I as both the subject of authors who celebrated her and as an accomplished writer in her own right. With innovative essays from Brenda M. Hosington, Carole Levin, and other established and emerging experts, it reappraises Elizabeth’s translations, letters, poems and prayers through a diverse range of approaches to textuality, from linguistic and philological to literary and cultural-historical.

This collection investigates Queen Elizabeth I as both the subject of authors who celebrated her and as an accomplished writer in her own right. With innovative essays from Brenda M. Hosington, Carole Levin, and other established and emerging experts, it reappraises Elizabeth’s translations, letters, poems and prayers through a diverse range of approaches to textuality, from linguistic and philological to literary and cultural-historical.

In this paper I analyze the different occasion and reason for traveling of the Neo-Assyrian experts of scribal, mantic, and therapeutic disciplines (ummânu).