The Clerk's 'Unscholarly Bow': Seeing and Reading Chaucer's Clerk from the Ellesmere MS to Caxton

Author / Editor
Hilmo, Maidie.

Title
The Clerk's 'Unscholarly Bow': Seeing and Reading Chaucer's Clerk from the Ellesmere MS to Caxton

Published
Journal of the Early Book Society 10 (2007): 71-105.

Description
Hilmo encourages the view that wood-cuts enhance text through visual rhetoric; specifically, Caxton's addition of a bow to Chaucer's Clerk in his edition of CT represents the Clerk as a moral satirist.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
Clerk and His Tale.