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

by Sonja Drimmer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224841
• ISBN13: 9780812224849
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.7"