Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe
Subtitle: Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer’s Female Audience
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 07, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781137544193
Description: "Critics have traditionally emphasized Geoffrey Chaucer's status as the "Father of English Literature" but in his own time he was more interested in becoming a great European writer. This book shows how Chaucer looked for inspiration not only to the great European male writers of his time (Boccaccio, Petrarch, Dante) but also to a European woman--Queen Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II-- as his ideal patron and inspiration" --
Notes: Source title: Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe: Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer’s Female Audience (The New Middle Ages)