The Medieval Anadyomene: A Study of Chaucer's Mythography
- Author / Editor
- Twycross, Meg.
The Medieval Anadyomene: A Study of Chaucer's Mythography
- Published
- Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1972.
- Physical Description
- v, 114 pp.; 14 b&w figs.
- Series
- Medium Aevum Monographs, New Series, volume 1.
- Description
- Surveys the iconographical tradition of "Venus-of-the-Seashell" ("Aphrodite Anadyomene") as background to assessing why Chaucer depicts Venus carrying a citole in KnT (1.1959) and carrying a comb in HF (line 136). Explores the images in Chaucer's literary sources, patristic commentaries, illuminations in astrological manuscripts, lapidary tradition, mermaids, and other analogous materials.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- House of Fame
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations