The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476.

Author / Editor
Drimmer, Sonja.

Title
The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476.

Published
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

Physical Description
352 pp.; b&w and color illus.

Description
Examines the importance of visual images in late medieval manuscripts, and the significance of manuscript illuminators in the development and spread of English literary culture. Discusses illuminated manuscripts of Chaucer’s CT, and illustrated works of Gower and Lydgate.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies