Eingebildetes Wissen: Imaginationstheorie, Haushalt und Kommerz in spätmittelalterlichen britischen Traumvisionen.

Published: Zeitsprünge: Forschungen zur frühen Neuzeit 21, nos. 3-4 (2017): 339-59; abstract in English, pp. 413-14.

Description: Clarifies the late medieval shift from household economics to usurious commerce, and argues that HF, John Lydgate's "Temple of Glass," and Gavin Douglas's "Palice of Honour" depict the "dissolution" of traditional households entailed in this shift. As well, the poems' buildings and spaces represent the “mental ventricles of imagination, logic and memory" and reflect a new "chresmatistic" poetics in which the "usurious multiplication and arbitrary evaluation of images" is aligned with a "desirous imagination."