French Culture and the Ricardian Court

Author / Editor
Butterfield, Ardis.

Title
French Culture and the Ricardian Court

Published
A. J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds. Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997), pp. 82-120.

Description
Assesses aspects of the social and political exchange between France and England as background to their poetic exchange. Focuses on how lyric refrains (especially "Qui bien aimme," found in PF and elsewhere) were "common currency" between the two cultures and how Gower's "Cinquente Balades" reflects the intimate relations between English and French lyric traditions.

Alternative Title
Essays on Ricardian Literature: In Honour of J. A. Burrow.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Parliament of Fowls.