The Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture: Literature and Art in the Age of Chaucer and the Gawain Poet

by Alfred Thomas

Bohemian culture exercised an important influence on the court of King Richard II, but it has been somewhat overlooked, with previous scholarship on its writers and artists generally confined to the role played by the French court of King Charles V and the Italian city states of Milan and Florence. This book aims to fill that gap. It argues that Richard's marriage to Anne of Bohemia, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, one of the greatest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843845660
• ISBN13: 9781843845669
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"