Chaucer Appropriated: The Troilus Frontispiece as Lancastrian Propaganda

Author / Editor
Helmbold, Anita.

Title
Chaucer Appropriated: The Troilus Frontispiece as Lancastrian Propaganda

Published
SAC 30 (2008): 205-34.

Description
Surveys commentary on the frontispiece to TC in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, MS 61, and argues that it was commissioned by Henry V as part of his program to promote Lancastrian legitimacy and English vernacular writing.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde