Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

List of Abbreviations

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-10

Lines of Communication

pp 11-12

1 - Richard II, Queen Anne, Bohemia: Marriage, Culture and Politics

pp 13-38

2 - Recommended Reading: Richard Rolle in Bohemia

pp 39-54

3 - The Golden Book of the Knight Wenceslas: Travelling, Piety and Diplomacy in Late-Medieval Europe

pp 55-82

Cultural Analogues

pp 83-84

4 - Making Sense of the Past: Czech and English Vernacular Histories in the Fourteenth Century

pp 85-104

5 - Beyond Nations: Translating Troy in the Middle Ages

pp 105-129

6 - Mock Passions in England and Bohemia

pp 130-149

7 - The Evil Tale of Evil Briselda: Griselda's Wicked Counterpart

pp 150-167

8 - The Image of the Tapster in England and Bohemia

pp 168-180

9 - Bohemian and English Painting in the Last Decades of the Fourteenth Century: Tracing the Bohemian Influence

pp 181-200

Rethinking Queen Anne

pp 201-202

10 - Contextualising the Legend of Good Women: Some Possible Bohemian Perspectives

pp 203-213

11 - Humility and Empire: Anne of Bohemia, Chaucer, and the Virgin Mary

pp 214-238

General Bibliography

pp 239-266

Index

pp 267-286