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

At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish manuscript copies of these works, copies whose im...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Drimmer, Sonja (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Colección:Material Texts
Temas:
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, English > 15th century.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > England.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
Architecture.
Fine Art.
Garden History.
Library Science and Publishing.
Literature.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Illuminators
  • Chapter 1. The Illuminators of London
  • Part II. Authors
  • Chapter 2. Chaucer's Manicule
  • Chapter 3. Gower in Humilitatio
  • Chapter 4. Lydgate ex Voto
  • Part III. Histories
  • Chapter 5. History in the Making: Lydgate's Troy Book
  • Chapter 6. History's Hall of Mirrors: Gower's Confessio Amantis
  • Epilogue. Chaucer's Missing Histories
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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