The Idol of the Text
- Author / Editor
- Zeeman, Nicolette.
The Idol of the Text
- Published
- Jeremy Dimmick, James Simpson, and Nicolette Zeeman, eds. Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England: Textuality and the Visual Image (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2002, pp. 43-62.
- Description
- For Chaucer and other medieval writers, "the figure of the idol is a means of focusing on problematic aspects of imaginative textuality and its contexts" (44). The sculptures in HF and Lollius in TC are partially represented or broken figures of disrupted textuality. In PF, frozen idols "emblematize" the sterility of courtly love, and the sterile Pardoner embodies idolatry itself. Zeeman also discusses works by Macrobius, Alain de Lille, and Jean de Meun.
- Contributor
- Dimmick, Jeremy, ed.
- Simpson, James, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England: Textuality and the Visual Image.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Pardoner and His Tale.