A blessed shore : England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare / Alfred Thomas.

Author/creator Thomas, Alfred, 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Travelers--England. --History.
Travelers--Czech Republic. --Bohemia. --History.
England--Relations. --Czech Republic. --Bohemia.
Bohemia (Czech Republic)--Relations. --England.
England--Civilization. --Czech influences.
Bohemia (Czech Republic)--Civilization. --English influences.
Bohemia (Czech Republic)--In literature.

Contents Imitatio Mariae : Anne of Bohemia as cultural and religious mediatrix -- Imperial designs : art and ideology at the Ricardian and Luxembourg courts -- "Master adversary" : Wyclif's influence in Bohemia -- "The Wycliffite woman" : reading women in fifteenth-century Bohemia -- Peregrinus et alter Ulysses : Leo of Rožmitál's mission to England (1466) -- Shakespeare's Bohemia : English men and women in Renaissance Prague -- Three men in a boat : Waldstein, Hollar, and Comenius in seventeenth-century England.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index.
LCCN 2007005921
ISBN9780801445682 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN080144568X (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks DA47.9.C94 T48 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold