Medieval Optics and the Framed Narrative in Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Holley, Linda Tarte.

Title
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.