Chaucer Reading His Poetry to the English Court (Illustration)

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by Corpus Christi College
published on 15 April 2019

Chaucer Reading His Poetry to the English Court — This full-page illustration depicts Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 - 1400 CE) reading his poem Troilus and Criseyde to the court of Richard II of England (1367 - 1400 CE). This copy of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde was made c. 1415 - 1425 CE, long after the poem was originally written sometime before 1385.

The copy was planned to contain over 90 illustrations, although only the frontispiece was ever painted and blank spaces remain throughout the rest of the manuscript. The manuscript containing this illustration is now in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK.

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Original image by Corpus Christi College. Uploaded by Arienne King, published on 15 April 2019 under the following license: CC BY-NC-SA. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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College, C. C. (2019, April 15). Chaucer Reading His Poetry to the English Court. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/10446/

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