Chaucer Gentrified: The Nexus of Art and Politics in the Ellesmere Miniatures

Author / Editor
Rosenblum, Joseph, with William K. Finley.

Title
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.