Ghostly Sights: Visual Mediation in Late-Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- Despres, Denise.
Ghostly Sights: Visual Mediation in Late-Medieval Literature
- Published
- Norman : Pilgrim Books, 1989.
- Physical Description
- xii, 165 pp.
- Description
- Derived from St. Bonaventure, the Franciscan model of meditation afforded the laity of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries a "means of participating in an eternal present," as demonstrated in "Piers Plowman," "Pearl," and "The Book of Margery Kempe."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.