Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts (English, Maidie Hilmo)

About the Book

The function of images in the major illustrated English poetic works from the Anglo-Saxon period to the early fifteenth century is the primary concern of this book. Hilmo argues that the illustrations have not been sufficiently understood because modern judgments about their artistic merit and fidelity to the literary texts have got in the way of a historical understanding of their function. The author here proves that artists took their work ser…

ISBN: 9780754631781