Visual Portraits of the Canterbury Pilgrims, 1484(?) to 1809
- Author / Editor
- Bowden, Betsy.
Visual Portraits of the Canterbury Pilgrims, 1484(?) to 1809
- Published
- Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntingon Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995), pp. 171-204.
- Description
- Surveys pilgrim protraits, ranging from Caxton's woodcuts to Blake's 1809 (1810?) engraving of "Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims," exploring "earlier readers' understandings of Chaucer's text (in order) to begin to distinguish those perceptions that remain constant across time from those limited to a given sociohistorical context."
- Includes historical analysis of such details as background and clothing, plus interpretation of pilgrim-riders' abilities to manage their horses and equine attitudes toward one another or toward the actions of their riders.
- Alternative Title
- The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.