Chaucer's Monogram and the 'Hoccleve Portrait' Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Bragg, Lois.
Chaucer's Monogram and the 'Hoccleve Portrait' Tradition
- Published
- Word & Image 12:1 (1996): 127-42.
- Description
- Read in accord with the medieval one-handed alphabet, the hand positions in Chaucer's Hoccleve portrait form the monogram GC. These positions appear to be a constant in the tradition of Chaucer portraiture, including the Ellesmere miniature. Such devices were used in medieval portraiture to particularize otherwise typical and timeless images.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.