Blood and Tears as Ink: Writing the Pictorial Sense of the Text
- Author / Editor
- Rust, Martha.
Blood and Tears as Ink: Writing the Pictorial Sense of the Text
- Published
- Chaucer Review 47.4 (2013): 390-415.
- Description
- Looks at "late medieval texts in which writing functions both verbally and pictorially," such as texts of the Passion, in which red ink in the manuscript creates a picture of Christ's blood, mentioned in ABC. TC similarly describes tearful verses, and Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden B.24, reflects that weeping with eyes and faces. Also addresses the botanical metaphor in "The Four Leaves of the Truelove."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
- ABC
- Troilus and Criseyde