Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe
Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer’s Female Audience
Authors: Thomas, Alfred
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- About this book
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Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales , Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect that came to greatly affect his writing.
- About the authors
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Alfred Thomas is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. He has published eight books, including, Anne's Bohemia: Czech Literature and Society (1310-1420); A Blessed Shore: England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare; Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City; and Shakespeare, Dissent, and the Cold War.
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"Alfred Thomas makes some important advances in our understanding of the affiliations between Bohemia and Britain in the later middle ages - a field of study attracting a rapid growth of interest. This coherent and persuasive study will appeal not only to Chaucerians but also to those working on patronage, cultural transmission, literary influence, gender, saints' lives, and European literature, among many other topics. Alfred Thomas's connectivity with a range of ongoing debates is impressive." - Peter Brown, Professor of English, University of Kent, UK
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-24
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Devotional Texts for Royal Princessesin Late-Medieval Bohemia
Pages 25-44
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Writing Jews, Writing Women: Chaucer’s “The Prioress’s Tale” and The Sacred Drama of Medieval Europe
Pages 45-77
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The Lady as Saint: “The Second Nun’s Tale,” Pearl, and the Czech Life of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Pages 79-110
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Dangerous Amazons: Sexual and Textual Rivalry in “The Knight’s Tale” and The Dalimil Chronicle
Pages 111-137
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe
- Book Subtitle
- Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer’s Female Audience
- Authors
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- Alfred Thomas
- Series Title
- The New Middle Ages
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-54260-1
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137542601
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-54419-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 251
- Topics
