Animating the Letter : The Figurative Embodiment of Writing from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
- Author / Editor
- Kendrick, Laura.
Animating the Letter : The Figurative Embodiment of Writing from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
- Published
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1999.
- Physical Description
- ix, 326 pp. .
- Description
- Explores various "developments in the image of writing in the Middle Ages and the different ways in which images empower writing from approximately the sixth through the sixteenth centuries," concentrating on early manuscripts and religious rather than secular texts. Includes discussion of the frontispiece to TC in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61 (pp. 196-97), plus an appendix suggesting that the links, prologues, and epilogues of CT be considered analogous to the jesting/jousting borders ("bourdes") of medieval manuscripts: "The Jesting Borders of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and of Late Medieval Manuscript Art" (pp. 217-25).
- Alternative Title
- Jesting Borders of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and of Late Medieval Manuscript Art
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.