Chaucer and the Art of Not Eating a Book.

Author / Editor
Boenig, Robert.

Title
Chaucer and the Art of Not Eating a Book.

Published
Dorsey Armstrong, Alexander L. Kaufman, and Shaun F. D. Hughes, eds. Telling Tales and Crafting Books: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2016), pp. 323-44. 2 b&w illus.

Description
Contrasts the unequivocal hermeneutics of "eating a book"--i.e., internalizing the text of the Bible and its "one true meaning"--as depicted in the illustration of the Cloisters Apocalypse (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cloisters Collection, MS 68.174) with the nondirective authorial stance depicted in Chaucer addressing the court audience in the TC manuscript, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61. Identifies a number of instances of such nondirective strategies in Chaucer's poetry and comments on his uses of the Apocalypse in PrT and HF.

Contributor
Armstrong, Dorsey, ed.
Kaufman, Alexander L., ed.
Hughes, Shaun F. D., ed.

Alternative Title
Telling Tales and Crafting Books: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Prioress and Her Tale
House of Fame