The Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture: Literature and Art in the Age of Chaucer and the "Gawain" Poet.

Description: Considers how Bohemian culture in the late fourteenth century influenced English medieval writers including Chaucer, Gower, and the Gawain- poet.Focuses on Anne of Bohemia, who married Richard II, and claims she "may have been in Chaucer’s mind as a patroness." Argues that the authors wrote in their vernacular language because they “aspired o be part of a burgeoning vernacular European culture stretching from Paris to Prague and from Brabant to Brandenburg," and not only for nationalist reasons.