Medieval Optics and the Framed Narrative in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Holley, Linda Tarte.
Medieval Optics and the Framed Narrative in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 21 (1986): 26-44.
- Description
- Optics as expounded by Roger Bacon provided the theory of perspective and radiating lines; architecture and manuscript illumination provided the technique of viewing scenes and personages through a frame. In TC, there are physical, verbal, historical, and philosophical frames.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.