Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe: Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer's Female Audience.
- Author / Editor
- Thomas, Alfred.
Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe: Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer's Female Audience.
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Physical Description
- xv, 251 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- Description
- Explores the influence of Anne of Bohemia, wife and consort of King Richard II, on Chaucer and his contemporaries. Proposes that Anne of Bohemia was a "possible female patron and reader" of Chaucer's texts. Focuses on PrT, SNT, KnT, WBT, and LGW.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Prioress and Her Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale
Knight and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Legend of Good Women