Chaucer and the War of the Maidens

Author / Editor
Ganim, John M.

Title
Chaucer and the War of the Maidens

Published
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed. Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England. The New Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 191-208.

Series
The New Middle Ages

Description
The War of the Maidens, a founding myth of Czech history, may have come to England via Anne of Bohemia and may be part of the "political unconscious" of several of Chaucer's works, particularly his depiction of the Amazons in KnT.

Contributor
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed.

Alternative Title
Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations