The 'Book of the Duchess' as a Memorial Monument
- Author / Editor
- Hardman, Phillipa.
The 'Book of the Duchess' as a Memorial Monument
- Published
- Chaucer Review 28 (1994): 205-15.
- Description
- Cruxes in BD--how it can function both universally and individually, why it was composed some years after Blanche's death--can be better understood by placing the poem in the context of tomb sculpture. At the time Chaucer was writing,Henry Yevele was sculpting Blache's monument, and parallels in methodology can be discerned between fourteenth-century tomb sculpting techniques and Chaucer's poem.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.