The visual object of desire in late medieval England /

Stanbury, Sarah.

The visual object of desire in late medieval England / Sarah Stanbury. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. - 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - The Middle Ages series .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-278) and index.

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.

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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.


Art and literature--History--England--To 1500.
Christian art and symbolism in literature.
Christian art and symbolism--England--Medieval, 500-1500.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
Iconoclasm in literature.
Iconoclasm--History--England--To 1500.
Idols and images in literature.