The visual object of desire in late medieval England / Sarah Stanbury.

Author/creator Stanbury, Sarah
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2008.
Description290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesThe Middle Ages series
Middle Ages series. ^A511997
Contents Introduction: Premodern fetishes -- Fetish, idol, icon. Knighton's Lollards, Capgrave's Katherine, and Walter Hilton's "Merk ymage" -- The despenser retable and 1381 -- Chaucer's sacramental poetic. Chaucer and images -- Translating Griselda -- The Clergeon's tongue -- Moving pictures. Nicholas Love's Mirror: dead images and the life of Christ -- Arts of self-patronage in The book of Margaret Kempe.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-278) and index.
ISBN9780812240382
ISBN0812240383

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PR 275.A77 S72 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold