Curious Clerks: Image Magic and Chaucerian Poetics.

Author / Editor
Weston, Lisa M. C.

Title
Curious Clerks: Image Magic and Chaucerian Poetics.

Published
In Albrecht Classen, ed. Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time: The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 507-22.

Description
Suggests that magic--specifically "image magic"--and poetics were interconnected for Chaucer and his original audience. Focuses on FranT, rhetoric, ekphrasis, and other "conjunctions of magic and rhetoric" in Chaucer's writings to reflect "the possible influence of contemporary image magic on Chaucer's poetic theory and practice."

Alternative Title
Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale