Abstract

HERNANDEZ PEREZ, Mª Beatriz. Geoffrey Chaucer y el mecenazgo femenino en la corte inglesa bajomedieval. LiminaR [online]. 2008, vol.6, n.2, pp.15-30. ISSN 2007-8900.

This article proposes the existence of female patronage nets among the Angevine courtly dames in the second half of fourteenth-century England. Chaucer's love poems, especially "The Legend of Good Women", reveal a climate of debate regarding the proper image of women to be presented by poetry. Resorting to textual analysis and to the poet's own commentaries, the article defends the relevance of those ladies close to thepoet in order to understand some Chaucerian topics and approaches to his female characters. The work also deals with British-Hispanic relationships in the late Middle Ages and with Chaucer's link to John of Gaunt's and Constanza of Castile's "Castilian enterprise".

Keywords : female patronage; Chaucer; The Legend of Good Women.

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