Words into Images: Textualizing the Visual and Visualizing the Textual in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts

Author / Editor
Olson, Mary Catherine.

Title
Words into Images: Textualizing the Visual and Visualizing the Textual in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4645A.

Description
Seeks to explain how and in what ways illustrations affect reading, discussing the manuscripts of the Harley Psalter, the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch, the Marvels of the East, and the Ellesmere manuscript of CT. Ellesmere raises questions about orality and literacy.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Canterbury Tales--General.