Gender and Politics in Osbern Bokenham's Legendary

Author / Editor
Hilles, Carroll.

Title
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.