visual object of desire in late medieval England
By: Sarah Stanbury
Series: The Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780812240382
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400; Art and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500; Christian art and symbolism -- England -- Medieval, 500-1500; Christian art and symbolism in literature; Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-278) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Premodern fetishes; title: Fetish, idol, icon. Knighton's Lollards, Capgrave's Katherine, and Walter Hilton's "Merk ymage"; title: The despenser retable and 1381; title: Chaucer's sacramental poetic. Chaucer and images; title: Translating Griselda; title: The Clergeon's tongue; title: Moving pictures. Nicholas Love's Mirror: dead images and the life of Christ; title: Arts of self-patronage in The book of Margaret Kempe