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Pages: 303
Authors: Peter Brown
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-05 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer's poetry. Chaucer never went to Bohemia but Bohemia came to him when, in 1382,
The Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Alfred Thomas
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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First detailed exploration of the role played by Bohemian tradition and customs on the court of Richard II.
Chaucer
Language: en
Pages: 626
Authors: Marion Turner
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-22 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. E
Writing Plague
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Pages: 279
Authors: Alfred Thomas
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-22 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Midd
Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
Language: en
Pages: 986
Authors: Margaret C. Schaus
Categories: History
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From women's medicine and the writings of Christine de Pizan to the lives of market and tradeswomen and the idealization of virginity, gender and social status