Название: The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476
Автор: Sonja Drimmer
Издательство: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812250494
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 45,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
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 seldom discussed in the major narratives of the development of English literary culture.