The visual object of desire in late medieval England /
Little remains of the rich visual culture of late medieval English piety. The century and a half leading up to the Reformation had seen an unparalleled growth of devotional arts, as chapels, parish churches, and cathedrals came to be filled with images in stone, wood, alabaster, glass, embroidery, a...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©2008.
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| Series: | Middle Ages series.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt163tchm |
Table of 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.