Alfred Thomas

Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe (eBook, PDF)

Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer's Female Audience

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales , Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect that came to greatly affect his writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 251
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137542601
• Artikelnr.: 44229238

Autorenporträt

Alfred Thomas is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. He has published eight books, including, Anne's Bohemia: Czech Literature and Society (1310-1420); A Blessed Shore: England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare; Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City; and Shakespeare, Dissent, and the Cold War.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Devotional Texts for Royal Princesses in Late Medieval Bohemia 2. Writing Jews
Writing Women: "The Prioress's Tale" and the Sacred Drama of Medieval Europe 3. The Lady as Saint: "The Second Nun's Tale
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and the Czech 4. Dangerous Amazons: Sexual and Textual Rivalry in "The Knight's Tale" and 5. Powerful Wives and Captive Knights: "The Wife of Bath's Tale
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and the Czech Chivalric Romances 6. Women Defended
Women Defamed:
and The Conclusion

Rezensionen

"Reading Women is a rich and compelling addition to the author's earlier work on the pan-European culture of Bohemia, especially as popularized in England by Richard II's Queen Anne." (Linda Burke, Mediaevistik, Vol. 31 (1), 2018)

"Alfred Thomas makes some important advances in our understanding of the affiliations between Bohemia and Britain in the later middle ages - a field of study attracting a rapid growth of interest. This coherent and persuasive study will appeal not only to Chaucerians but also to those working on patronage, cultural transmission, literary influence, gender, saints' lives, and European literature, among many other topics. Alfred Thomas's connectivity with a range of ongoing debates is impressive." - Peter Brown, Professor of English, University of Kent, UK