Title: Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe
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" --
Subjects: Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, Czech literature, Women in literature, Women and literature, Women, history, middle ages, 500-1500, Knowledge, Antisemitism in literature, Influence, Sources, History, Women, POETRY, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh