The Background of Chaucer's Mission to Spain
- Author / Editor
- Baugh, Albert C.
The Background of Chaucer's Mission to Spain
- Published
- Arno Esch, ed. Chaucer und Seine Zeit: Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1968), pp. 55-69.
- Description
- Describes the English royal interest in the political and military maneuvers in Castile, Navarre, Aragon, and France that involved Pedro the Cruel, Pedro the Bold, Henry of Trastamara, Bernard du Guesclin, the Free Companies, and England's Black Prince, offering it as background to Chaucer's 1366 presence in Spain. Surmises that Chaucer's mission was to discourage Gascon participation in Trastamara's invasion of Castile.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer und Seine Zeit
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life