The Literature of the Bedchamber in Late Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Knight, Charlotte.
The Literature of the Bedchamber in Late Medieval England.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of London, King's College, 2019. 230 pp.; color illus. Dissertation Abstracts International C84.02(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and via https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/; accessed August 23, 2025.
- Description
- Explores the "centrality of the bedchamber to the imaginative worlds" of various texts: TC, Chaucer's dream poems, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, "The Book of Margery Kempe," Christine de Pizan's "The Book of the City of Ladies," and others. In TC, the differing "generic concepts of privacy" of Troilus and Criseyde are "irreconcilable with each other." In the dream poems, Chaucer uses the bedchamber "as a space for a secular version of meditative reading."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls
House of Fame
Legend of Good Women
Troilus and Criseyde