Historicising Philippa of Lancaster.
- Title
- Historicising Philippa of Lancaster.
- Published
- Hutchinson, Amélia P. "Historicising Philippa of Lancaster." In Tiago Viúla de Faria, ed. Philippa of Lancaster and the Court Culture of Medieval Portugal (Cham, Switz.: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, 2024), pp. 57-78.
- Review
- Hutchinson's essay is, in a sense, a thoughtful reading of two early chronicles, Fernão Lopes's "Chronicles of Fernão Lopes" [5 vols., ed. Amélia P. Hutchinson et al. (Madrid: Tamesis, 2023)] and Gomes Eanes de Zurara's "Crónica de Tomada de Ceuta por El Rei D. João I," to "understand better the person, the age in which she lived, and the distinguished place she occupies in Portuguese medieval history" (59). As "the symbolic 'human seal' of the Treaty of Windsor (1386)" (57), the younger daughter of John of Gaunt served Portugal as an ideal queen until her death of plague in 1415. "O Livro do Amante," the Portuguese translation of the "Confessio Amantis," is regularly attributed to her influence, and friendship with Henry Despenser, Bishop of Norwich, with whom she exchanged letters and gifts, one of which may have been a copy of the CA (68-69). [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 44.2]
- Date
- 2024
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
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