Understanding the Manuscript Frontispiece to Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 61: The Political Language of a Lancastrian Por

This study situates Chaucer in both oral and literate realms and encouraes interpretation within a political framework by arguing that the Corpus Christi Troilus may have been bespoken by Henry V as a tool in the Lancastrian propaganda campaign for the promotion of English as the national language of England.