A Camp Wedding: The Cultural Context of Chaucer's Brooch of Thebes
- Author / Editor
- Askins, William R.
A Camp Wedding: The Cultural Context of Chaucer's Brooch of Thebes
- Published
- Laura L. Howes, ed. Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007), pp. 27-41.
- Description
- Askins treats Mars and Ven as two halves of a single poem, reading them together as the "first epithalamium" in English, a celebration of the marriage that took place in spring 1386 between Elizabeth of Lancaster (daughter of Gaunt) and John Holland. Askins argues that Philippa Chaucer died soon after the wedding, while accompanying the Lancastrian retinue to Spain; Chaucer and Oton de Grandson also attended the ceremony.
- Alternative Title
- Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Mars
- Complaint of Venus.
- Chaucer's Life.