The Painted Chamber of Westminster, the Fall of Tyrants and the English Literary Model of Governance
- Author / Editor
- Binski, Paul.
The Painted Chamber of Westminster, the Fall of Tyrants and the English Literary Model of Governance
- Published
- Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 74 (2011): 121-54.
- Description
- Discusses biblical kings represented in the "camera depicta" of the Westminster Chamber, also treated in several literary works on kingship, including MkT and a short passage in ParsT. The Chamber's murals proclaim the Plantagenet kings to be "ideal just warriors" and warn that immorality in a royal family "becomes a pathology of the state."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Monk and His Tale
- Parson and His Tale