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title: Chaucer Reading His Poetry to the English Court
author: Corpus Christi College
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10446/chaucer-reading-his-poetry-to-the-english-court/
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license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
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# Chaucer Reading His Poetry to the English Court

_Authored by Corpus Christi College_

## Image File

[![Chaucer Reading His Poetry to the English Court](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/10446.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/10446.jpg)

## Image Caption

This full-page illustration depicts [Geoffrey Chaucer](https://www.worldhistory.org/Geoffrey_Chaucer/) (c. 1343 - 1400 CE) reading his poem Troilus and Criseyde to the court of [Richard II of England](https://www.worldhistory.org/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.

## Cite This Work

### APA
College, C. C. (2019, April 15). Chaucer Reading His Poetry to the English Court. *World History Encyclopedia*. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10446/chaucer-reading-his-poetry-to-the-english-court/>
### Chicago
College, Corpus Christi. "Chaucer Reading His Poetry to the English Court." *World History Encyclopedia*, April 15, 2019. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10446/chaucer-reading-his-poetry-to-the-english-court/>.
### MLA
College, Corpus Christi. "Chaucer Reading His Poetry to the English Court." *World History Encyclopedia*, 15 Apr 2019, <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10446/chaucer-reading-his-poetry-to-the-english-court/>.

## License & Copyright

[Original image](https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/dh967mz5785) by **Corpus Christi College**. Submitted by [Arienne King](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/ava.spartan.117/ "User Page: Arienne King"), published on 15 April 2019. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en). 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. When republishing on the web a hyperlink back to the original content source URL must be included. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.