Les 'bords' des 'Contes de Cantorbery' et des manuscrits enlumines

Author / Editor
Kendrick, Laura.

Title
Les 'bords' des 'Contes de Cantorbery' et des manuscrits enlumines

Published
Bulletin des Anglicistes Medievistes 46 (1994): 926-38.

Description
Explores wordplay involving French and Anglo-Norman "bords" that may have authorized the use of the borders of medieval illuminated manuscripts for visual jesting, contestation, and derision. Considers the verbal "borders" of CT in relation to this tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.