Tribute to a Duchess: "The Book of the Duchess" and Machaut's "Remede de Fortune."

Author / Editor
Sturm-Maddox, Sara.

Title
Tribute to a Duchess: "The Book of the Duchess" and Machaut's "Remede de Fortune."

Published
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 119-34.

Description
Argues for the "strong intertextual presence" of Machaut's "Remede de Fortune" in BD, reflective of developments in late medieval francophone and anglophone social history. Both poems combine praise for an idealized lady with an account of the lover's development, gently resisting the expectations of elegy.

Alternative Title
Book of the Duchess: Contexts and Interpretations.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations