Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts : From Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Hilmo, Maidie.
Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts : From Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer
- Published
- Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004.
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 236 pp. ; 76 b&w illus.
- Description
- Six related essays on the interaction of words and images in English literary tradition: a theoretical introduction, plus essays on the Ruthwell Cross, Anglo-Saxon art, the Auchinleck and Vernon manuscripts, the manuscript of "Pearl," and the Ellesmere manuscript of CT.
- The latter essay (pp. 160-99) shows how Ellesmere illustrations "advance concepts of good government" and encourage viewers to regard the real goal of pilgrimage as spiritual, expanding their "aristocratic space" in ways that imply "celestial space."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies