Chaucer Gentrified: The Nexus of Art and Politics in the Ellesmere Miniatures
- Author / Editor
- Rosenblum, Joseph, with William K. Finley.
Chaucer Gentrified: The Nexus of Art and Politics in the Ellesmere Miniatures
- Published
- Chaucer Review 38: 140-57, 2003.
- Description
- The artists of the Ellesmere manuscript carefully deviated from Chaucer's descriptions of the pilgrims to deflect the satire from the upper and upper-middle classes to the lower orders. When Chaucer's own descriptions were ambiguous, the artists removed from the illustrations those things that might make them seem so.
- Contributor
- Finley, William K.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.