Miracle Windows and the Pilgrimage to Canterbury.

Author / Editor
Raybin, David.

Title
Miracle Windows and the Pilgrimage to Canterbury.

Published
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Visual Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016) pp. 154-74.

Description
Emphasizes Chaucer's biographical connections to Kent to support the claim that a "visual source" for the narrative framework of CT exists in pictorial representations of the miracles of Thomas Becket on stained glass in Trinity Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral. Like CT, the stained-glass images evoke a progression from "secular comfort to spiritual healing" involving diverse social representatives. Contextualizes this nonliterary source relationship of ekphrasis in BD and HF, as well as the later testimony of the Canterbury Interlude preceding "The Tale of Beryn."

Alternative Title
Chaucer: Visual Approaches.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Life
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Chaucerian Apocrypha