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050 00 $aDA47.9.C94$bT48 2007
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100 1 $aThomas, Alfred,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003037515
245 12 $aA blessed shore :$bEngland and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare /$cAlfred Thomas.
260 $aIthaca :$bCornell University Press,$c2007.
300 $axi, 239 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tlmitatio Mariae : Anne of Bohemia as cultural and religious mediatrix -- $g2.$tImperial designs : art and ideology at the Ricardian and Luxembourg Courts -- $g3.$t"Master adversary" : Wyclif's influence in Bohemia -- $g4.$t"The Wycliffite woman" : reading women in fifteenth-century Bohemia -- $g5.$tPeregrinus et alter Ulysses : Leo of Rozmital's Mission to England (1466) -- $g6.$tShakespeare's Bohemia : English men and women in Renaissance Prague -- $g7.$tThree men in a boat : Waldstein, Hollar, and Comenius in seventeenth-century England -- $gApp.$t"The Wycliffite woman" : a rhymed translation.
520 1 $a"In The Winter's Tale, Antigonus announces that his ship has washed up on the shores of Bohemia. How and why landlocked Bohemia? Did Shakespeare not know his geography, or is something else at work here? Alfred Thomas answers these questions by exploring cross-cultural interactions between England and Bohemia from the fourteenth to the early seventeenth century. He is interested less in the diplomacy and politics of this history than in the images - the shifting blends of fact and fiction - that each of the two cultures nourished about the other." "Although Thomas gives original readings of famous English texts by Chaucer and Shakespeare, this is also a book about Czech writers and travelers; one Czech expatriate, Anne of Bohemia, became Queen of England. For both countries these were decades of religious and dynastic turbulence, and Thomas's analyses of the relations between Wyclif and Hus, Lollards and Hussites, help us to understand why Bohemia was viewed as an almost utopian land of refuge ("a blessed shore" on which a ship might wash up) for persecuted English men and women. Of particular interest is his analysis of the ways in which English court culture emulated that of Prague, which was an imperial seat at a time when England was still a peripheral place with little influence on the heart of Europe. Thomas shows that the relationship between the two cultures was never a straightforward one, but a mirror-like formation in which each saw the other "through the distorted and subjective effect of its own reflection.""--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aTravelers$zEngland$xHistory.
650 0 $aTravelers$zCzech Republic$zBohemia$xHistory.
651 0 $aEngland$xRelations$zCzech Republic$zBohemia.
651 0 $aBohemia (Czech Republic)$xRelations$zEngland.
651 0 $aEngland$xCivilization$xCzech influences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007000934
651 0 $aBohemia (Czech Republic)$xCivilization$xEnglish influences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007000935
651 0 $aBohemia (Czech Republic)$xIn literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0710/2007005921.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hDA47.9.C94$iT48 2007