The Manuscript as an Ambigraphic Medium: Hoccleve's Scribes, Illuminators, and Their Problems.

Author / Editor
Drimmer, Sonja.

Title
The Manuscript as an Ambigraphic Medium: Hoccleve's Scribes, Illuminators, and Their Problems.

Published
Exemplaria 29.3 (2017): 175-94. 7 color illus.

Description
Argues that medieval "media consciousness," despite the lack of "verbal declarations of such awareness," is evident in the text-image relations of the Chaucer portrait in manuscripts of Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes," coining the term "ambigraphic" to characterize the "ontological complexity" of Hoccleve's "self-referential" text and the features of its presentation that are simultaneously original and copied.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion