Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix
- Author / Editor
- Rust, Martha Dana.
Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix
- Published
- New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xii, 290 pp. 35 b&w illus.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Explores relationships between texts and their paratexts in English and Scottish books produced between 1400 and 1490, considering a "variety of pre- and extralinguistic modes of interacting with and thinking through books." Examines letter-forms, "doodles," illuminations, and other graphic features, exploring how a "perceptual dimension" comes into being as books are used. Comments recurrently on Chaucerian texts, including ABC, BD, and TC at some length.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- ABC.
- Book of the Duchess.
- Troilus and Criseyde.