The Bequests of Isabel of Castile, First Duchess of York, and Chaucer's "Complaint of Mars."
- Author / Editor
- Stratford, Jenny.
The Bequests of Isabel of Castile, First Duchess of York, and Chaucer's "Complaint of Mars."
- Published
- Jessica A. Lutkin and J. S. Hamilton, eds. Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of Nigel Saul (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2022), pp. 75-92, plus appendix.
- Description
- Summarizes the life and legacy of Isabella of Castile, examining in detail her last will and testament (included in Latin and French). Refutes John Shirley's suggestion in his manuscript afterwords to Mars and to Venus that the poems link the allegory of the planets in Mars to a putative affair between Isabella and John Holland, first earl of Huntingdon (later first duke of Exeter), an aspersion cast earlier by Thomas Walsingham.
- Contributor
- Lutkin, Jessica A., ed.
Hamilton, J. S., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of Nigel Saul
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Mars
Complaint of Venus
Manuscripts and Textual Studies