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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Drimmer, Sonja
Titre(s) : The art of allusion [Texte imprimé] : illuminators and the making of English literature, 1403-1476 / Sonja Drimmer
Publication : Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (324 p. ; 16 p. de pl) : ill. ; 26 cm
Collection : Material texts
Lien à la collection : Material texts (Print)
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-309) and index. - Bibliogr. p. 231-309. - Index
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 images were integral to the rising prestige of
English as a literary language. Yet despite the significance of these images, manuscript
illuminators are seldom discussed in the major narratives of the development of English
literary culture.0The newly enlarged scale of English manuscript production generated
a problem: namely, a need for new images. Not only did these images need to accompany
narratives that often had no tradition of illustration, they also had to express novel
concepts, including ones as foundational as the identity and suitable representation
of an English poet. In devising this new corpus, manuscript artists harnessed visual
allusion as a method to articulate central questions and provide at times conflicting
answers regarding both literary and cultural authority
Sujet(s) : Enluminure médiévale -- Angleterre (GB) -- 15e siècle
Manuscrits médiévaux -- Angleterre (GB) -- 15e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780812250497 (Rel.). - ISBN 0812250494
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45561417b
Notice n° :
FRBNF45561417
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