Chaucer and John of Gaunt: Finding a Way to Break into History.
- Author / Editor
- Staley, Lynn.
Chaucer and John of Gaunt: Finding a Way to Break into History.
- Published
- Amy N. Vines and Lee Templeton, eds. New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature: Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2023), pp. 183-202
- Description
- Suggests John of Gaunt commissioned BD to elegize Blanche of Lancaster and to claim a "new future," a move inspired by Edward I’s memorialization of Eleanor of Castile. An "important commission for Chaucer," BD gave him “opportunity to begin to develop a perspective on history that guided his later thinking,” characterized by ventriloquizing "lessons taught by noble ladies" reinforced through the poem's "balancing references to Troy against those to Rome."
- Alternative Title
- New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
Chaucer's Life