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Author:
Stanbury, Sarah.
Title:
The visual object of desire in late medieval England / Sarah Stanbury.
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Copyright Date:
c2008
Description:
290 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Chaucer, Geoffrey,--d. 1400.
Art and literature--England--History--To 1500.
Christian art and symbolism--England--Medieval, 500-1500.
Christian art and symbolism in literature.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-278) and index.
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.
Series:
Middle Ages series
ISBN:
0812240383
9780812240382
OCLC:
(OCoLC)154800580
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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