England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer

New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer's poetry. Chaucer never went to Bohemia but Bohemia came to him when, in 1382, King Richard II of England married Anne, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV. Charles's splendid court in Prague was renowned across Europe for its patronage of literature, art and architecture, and Anne and her entourage brought with them some of its glamour and allure - their fashions, extravagance and behaviour provoking comment from English chroniclers. For Chaucer, a poet and diplomat affiliated to Richard's court, Anne was more muse than patron, her influence embedded in a range of his works, including the Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women and Canterbury Tales. This volume shows Bohemia to be a key European context, alongside France and Italy, for understanding Chaucer's poetry, providing a wide perspective on the nature of cultural exchange between England and Bohemia in the later fourteenth century. The contributors consider such matters as court culture and politics, the writings of Richard Rolle, artistic style, Troy stories, historiographic writing and travel narrative; they highlight the debt Chaucer owed to Bohemian culture, and the affinities between English and Bohemian literary production, whether in the use of Petrarch's tale of Griselde, the iconography of the tapster figure, or satires on the Passion of Christ.

General

Imprint:	D.S. Brewer
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Chaucer Studies
Release date:	September 2023
First published:	2023
Editors:	Peter Brown (Customer) • Jan ÄŒermák
Contributors:	Michael J. Bennett • Julia Boffey • Venetia Bridges (Royalty Account) • Jan Dienstbier • Lucie Doležalová • A.S.G. Edwards • Lenka PanuÅ¡ková • Klára Petříková
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	302
ISBN-13:	978-1-84384-579-9
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-84384-579-2
Barcode:	9781843845799

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