The Visual Semantics of Ellesmere: Gold, Artifice, and Audience.
- Author / Editor
- Hilmo, Maidie.
The Visual Semantics of Ellesmere: Gold, Artifice, and Audience.
- Published
- Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016), pp. 218-43.
- Description
- Studies the interplay between textual content and "mise-en-page" in the Ellesmere MS of CT, especially its use of gold, border ornament, decorated letters, and glosses. Such elements shape an integrated experience of the text, duly "sanitized and aestheticized," aimed toward an aristocratic readership including women.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer: Visual Approaches.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
Manuscripts and Textual Studies