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<\/a><\/p>\nand demonstrated similarities to English bibles of the same period, as well as earlier Anglo-Saxon books. Sarah James examined the evidence for the transfer of Bohemian models of female sanctity to late-medieval England, while Marek Such\u00fd discussed a set of accounts for a tour by Henry, Earl of Derby, to Prussia and the Holy Land, revealing that medieval English travellers spent large sums of money in Bohemia on wine and gambling, much as their modern counterparts do today. Tony Edwards, with Julia Boffey from Queen Mary, London, established the possible Bohemian contexts for one of Chaucer\u2019s longer texts, the Legend of Good Women<\/i>, and Jan \u010cerm\u00e1k offered some fascinating comparisons between Chaucerian and Bohemian lyric poetry.<\/p>\n
The second day began with Helena Znojemsk\u00e1\u2019s paper (read in her absence by Jan) exploring issues of ethnic and class division in the Alliterative Morte Arthure<\/i> and the Czech Dalimil Chronicle<\/i>. In his examination of Chaucer\u2019s Troilus and Criseyde<\/i> Peter Brown pointed to evidence of cultural congruence in England and Bohemia, while Kl\u00e1ra Pet\u0159ikov\u00e1 pointed to generic, stylistic and lexical parallels in texts invoking the Boethian tradition in both countries. Finally Ryan Perry demonstrated that traditional scholarly approaches to Anglo-Bohemian cultural exchange, focusing almost solely on the traffic in heretical texts, require urgent reappraisal.<\/p>\n
We also visited historical sites of great significance for this project: Karlstejn Castle, built by Emperor Charles IV, father of Anne of Bohemia<\/p>\n