De-Networking Iberia and England in the "Constance" Story Cluster.
- Author / Editor
- Houlik-Ritchey, Emily.
De-Networking Iberia and England in the "Constance" Story Cluster.
- Published
- Emily Houlik-Ritchey. Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023), pp. 167-208.
- Description
- Analyzes the role of Iberia in Constance narratives by Trivet, Chaucer, Gower, and the Portuguese and Castilian translators of Gower's version. Accepts that the Anglo-Castilian politics of John of Gaunt's marriage to Constance of Castile undergird aspects of MLT, and indicates that, in the tale, "erasing" Iberia helps to construct a fantasy of "Anglo-Roman Christian identity," while, simultaneously, "alluding to" it obliquely "deconstruct[s] the logic of Iberia's erasure from a dynamic geopolitical world."
- Alternative Title
- Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law aand His Tale
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