Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe: Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer's Female Audience.

Author / Editor
Thomas, Alfred.

Title
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