Gender and Politics in Osbern Bokenham's Legendary
- Author / Editor
- Hilles, Carroll.
Gender and Politics in Osbern Bokenham's Legendary
- Published
- New Medieval Literatures 4: 189-212, 2001.
- Description
- Bokenham "strategically utilizes feminine piety" and his own "dullness" to express political dissent in a style that differs from the high rhetorical style of Gower, Chaucer, and Lydgate. He rejects their "classicizing, aureate" tradition, initiating a tradition that affiliates York with the power of women through discourse that the "Yorkists would develop throughout the ensuing decades."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.