The Art of Allusion : : Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476 / / Sonja Drimmer.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Material Texts
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 27 color, 97 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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