North, Richard;
(2025)
King John's Envoy: Patronage and Date of the Book of the Duchess.
The Chaucer Review
, 60
(1)
pp. 28-54.
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Abstract
This article argues that Chaucer composed the Book of the Duchess for John of Gaunt, presenting it first on September 12, 1373, at the memorial feast of John's deceased wife Duchess Blanche of Lancaster, while Gaunt was away with his army riding south across France to Castile. The case is made that the poem was made without Gaunt's commission and yet in hope of his patronage, and that Chaucer's inclusion in his wife's £10 annuity in June 1374 was Gaunt's acknowledgment of this poem.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | King John's Envoy: Patronage and Date of the Book of the Duchess |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/article/949778 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Blanche of Lancaster, Book of the Duchess, Froissart, John of Gaunt, Machaut, sources and analogues |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201500 |
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