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The visual object of desire in late medieval England / Sarah Stanbury.
LIBRA PR275.A77 S72 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stanbury, Sarah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Art and literature.
- Christian art and symbolism--England--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Christian art and symbolism.
- Christian art and symbolism in literature.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
- History.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Premodern Fetishes 1
- Fetish, Idol, Icon
- 1 Knighton's Lollards, Capgrave's Katherine, and Walter Hilton's "Merk Ymage" 33
- 2 The Despenser Retable and 1381 76
- Chaucer's Sacramental Poetic
- 3 Chaucer and Images 95
- 4 Translating Griselda 122
- 5 The Clergeon's Tongue 153
- Moving Pictures
- 6 Nicholas Love's Mirror: Dead Images and the Life of Christ 172
- 7 Arts of Self-Patronage in the Book of Margery Kempe 191.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812240382
- 0812240383
- OCLC:
- 154800580
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