Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe: Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer's Female Audience

by Alfred Thomas

Geoffrey Chaucer has traditionally been seen as indebted to the great male writers of medieval Europe: Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch and Guillaume de Machaut. However, little has been written about the European woman who was Queen of England and his possible patron: Anne of Bohemia, daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV and wife of Richard II. Although Chaucer explicitly compliments the Queen in his work, scholars have been reluctant or unable to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137544198
• ISBN13: 9781137544193
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"