At the Nájera Crossroads (1367): Anglo-Iberian Encounters in the Late Fourteenth Century.
- Author/Editor
- Galván, Fernando.
- Title
- At the Nájera Crossroads (1367): Anglo-Iberian Encounters in the Late Fourteenth Century.
- Published
- Galván, Fernando. "At the Nájera Crossroads (1367): Anglo-Iberian Encounters in the Late Fourteenth Century." In John Gower in England and Iberia: Manuscripts, Influences, Reception. Ed. Ana Sáez-Hidalgo and R. F. Yeager. Publications of the John Gower Society X. Cambridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2014. Pp. 103-17.
- Review
- Galván analyzes the "historical, political, and dynastic conditions that linked England to Iberia during the fourteenth-century" (103-4). He reviews England's unsuccessful pursuit of an alliance with Castile during the Hundred Years' War; France's alliance with Aragón; the Black Prince's service alongside Pedro the Cruel and others at the Battle of Nájera; Chaucer's treatment of these matters in the "Monk's Tale;" John of Gaunt's marriage to Constanza of Castile; and the deterioration of relations between Castile and France due to Gaunt's success. He discusses the Castilian chronicler, López de Ayala, who served as a diplomat. López fought at the Battle of Nájera, initially on the side of Pedro the Cruel, and was held prisoner briefly by the Black Prince. One of López's works may have influenced Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and, like Philippa of Lancaster's possible involvement with the Portuguese and Castilian translations of the "Confessio Amantis," suggests lively English and Iberian cultural connections. [MPK. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 42.2]
- Date
- 2014
- Gower Subjects
- Backgrounds and General Criticism
Confessio Amantis
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