Chaucer and the War of the Maidens
- Author / Editor
- Ganim, John M.
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