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| | Vernacularity: The Politics of Language and Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11) |
 | | A major, albeit much neglected, figure who mediates between the flourishing of late fourteenth- century English vernacular culture (literature,painting, architecture) and its continental counterpart was Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II and daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. |
 | | He proceeds to explore, with close and detailed reference to the queen's Bohemian cultural background, how Anne's influence on Chaucer, the Pearl-Poet, Wyclif and the court artists of Richard II complicates these oppositions and, in so doing, challenges the received interpretation of her impact on English religious and cultural life. |
 | | Thomas concludes that the role played by Queen Anne in the growth of vernacularity mediates between the historical status of late medieval women and the subjective response they evoke in the imaginary world of their male contemporaries. |
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