The Symbolic Significance of figurae scatologicae in Gothic Manuscripts
- Author / Editor
- Wentersdorf, Karl P.
The Symbolic Significance of figurae scatologicae in Gothic Manuscripts
- Published
- Clifford Davidson, ed. Word, Picture, and Spectacle: Papers by Karl P. Wentersdorf, Roger Ellis, Clifford Davidson, and R. W. Hanning. Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series 5 (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Medieval Institute Publications, 1984), pp. 1-19.
- Description
- Not mere "doodles" but symbolic images, scatalogical images in the margins of medieval manuscripts derive ultimately from biblical and religious writing. Verbal scatalogy in MilT and SumT is serious, moralistic, not vicious.
- Contributor
- Davidson, Clifford,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Word, Picture, and Spectacle: Papers by Karl P. Wentersdorf, Roger Ellis, Clifford Davidson, and R. W. Hanning.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.