Chaucer's "The Book of the Duchess": A Study in Medieval Iconography and Literary Structure.

Author / Editor
Ebel, Julia G.

Title
Chaucer's "The Book of the Duchess": A Study in Medieval Iconography and Literary Structure.

Published
College English 29.3 (1967): 197-206.

Description
Applies "principles" of medieval visual art (scale and perspective) to aid in understanding how BD magnifies the Black Knight's loss by presenting it in the context of the analogous accounts of the narrator's malaise and the grief of Alcyone.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess