New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer's poetry.

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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction, Peter Brown and Jan ¿ermák
Lines of Communication
1: Richard II, Queen Anne, Bohemia: Marriage, Culture and Politics
Michael Bennett
2: Recommended Reading: Richard Rolle in Bohemia
Michael Van Dussen
3: The Golden Book of the Knight Wenceslas: Travelling, Piety and Diplomacy in Late-Medieval Europe
Marek Suchý
Cultural Analogues
4: Making Sense of the Past: Czech and English Vernacular: Histories in the Fourteenth Century
Helena Znojemská
5: Beyond Nations: Translating Troy in the Middle Ages
Venetia Bridges
6: Mock Passions in England and Bohemia
Lucie Doležalová
7: The Evil Tale of Evil Briselda: Griselda's Wicked Counterpart
Klára Pet¿íková
8: The Image of the Tapster in England and Bohemia
Jan Dienstbier
9: Bohemian and English Painting in the Last Decades of the Fourteenth Century: Tracing the Bohemian Influence
Lenka Panus¿kovä
Rethinking Queen Anne
10: Contextualizing the Legend of Good Women: Some Possible Bohemian Perspectives
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards
11: Humility and Empire: Anne of Bohemia, Chaucer and the Virgin Mary
David Wallace
General Bibliography
Index