Pictorial Illustration of Late Medieval Poetic Texts: The Role of the Frontispiece or Prefatory Picture

Author / Editor
Salter, Elizabeth,and Derek Pearsall.

Title
Pictorial Illustration of Late Medieval Poetic Texts: The Role of the Frontispiece or Prefatory Picture

Published
Flemming G. Andersen, Esther Nyholm, Marianne Powell, and Flemming Talbo Stubkjaer, eds. Medieval Iconography and Narrative: A Symposium (Odense: Odense University Press, 1980), pp. 100-23.

Description
The study of the relationship of text to picture in medieval manuscripts is worthwhile, but seldom performed for Middle English texts, especially Chaucer, except for the "Troilus" frontispiece in Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 61. It is important, both for what it tells us, enigmatically, of Chaucer's audience and for its reflection of the content of TC.

Contributor
Pearsall, Derek.
Andersen, Flemming G., ed.
Nyholm, Esther, ed.
Powell, Marianne, ed.
Stubkjaer, Flemming Talbo, ed.

Alternative Title
Medieval Iconography and Narrative: A Symposium.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Troilus and Criseyde.