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

By: Stanbury, Sarah
Language: English Series: The Middle Ages seriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.Description: 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780812240382; 0812240383Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 | Art and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500 | Christian art and symbolism in literature | Christian art and symbolism -- England -- Medieval, 500-1500 | Civilization, Medieval, in literature | English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism | Iconoclasm in literature | Iconoclasm -- England -- History -- To 1500 | Idols and images in literature
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.
Holdings
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Book Book British Museum Britain Europe and Prehistory Shelves ME 2.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 10021072
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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.