Every Picture Tells a Story: The Importance of Images in the Wider Dissemination and Reception of Texts

Author / Editor
Houwen, Luuk.

Title
Every Picture Tells a Story: The Importance of Images in the Wider Dissemination and Reception of Texts

Published
Andrew James Johnston, Ferdinand von Mengden, and Stefan Thim, eds. Language and Text: Current Perspectives on English and Germanic Historical Linguistics and Philology (Heidelberg: Winter, 2006), pp. 97-111.

Physical Description
13 b&w illus.

Description
Exemplifies text/image relationships by examining a number of misericords depicting scenes from the beast fable tradition of Reynard and other sly foxes. Considers the role of NPT in the development of this visual tradition.

Alternative Title
Language and Text: Current Perspectives on English and Germanic Historical Linguistics and Philology.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.