The Sociable Text of the 'Troilus Frontispiece': A Different Mode of Textuality
- Author / Editor
- Carruthers, Mary.
The Sociable Text of the 'Troilus Frontispiece': A Different Mode of Textuality
- Published
- ELH 81, no. 2 (2014): 423- 41.
- Description
- Argues that the Frontispiece of the 1420 manuscript of TC (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 61) demonstrates a medieval tradition of textuality that is not only oral and aural but social, and an example of group textuality in which words and illustrations act as "instigator and participant." Invoking the scholarship of A. J. Minnis and the medieval testimony of Geoffrey of Vinsauf and of Alan of Lille, considers such issues as "intentio auctoris", the nature of acts of perception, and, briefly, other medieval modes of textuality.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies