Medieval images, icons, and illustrated English literary texts : from Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer /: from Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Maidie Hilmo.
• Authors: Hilmo, Maidie, 1942-
• Contents: Contents: Preface; Epigraph; Introduction, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton; Reading medieval images; Visual and verbal manifestations of the dual nature of Christ on the Ruthwell Cross; The wisdom and power of the creative word: images for meditation and transformation of self and society in late Anglo-Saxon England; The revival of the vernacular and the illustrated Caligula, Auchinleck and Vernon manuscripts; Creating a visual narrative of the spiritual journey to the New Jerusalem in the Pearl manuscript; Framing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for the aristocratic readers of the Ellesmere manuscript; Bibliography; Indexes.
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (344 pages)
• Subjects: 820.9357; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Art and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500; English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- England; Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval, 500-1500; Illumination of books and manuscripts, English; Christian art and symbolism -- England; Manuscripts, Medieval -- England; Art, Medieval -- England; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315249278; 1315249278; 9781351918565; 1351918567; 9781351918558; 1351918559; 9781351918541; 1351918540
• Related ISBNs: 9781138273184; 9780754631781
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