Understanding the manuscript frontispiece to Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 61 : the political language of a Lancastrian portrait
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Understanding the manuscript frontispiece to Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 61 : the political language of a Lancastrian portrait
Edwin Mellen Press, c2010
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This study utilizes a two-pronged approach to examine the rationale underlying the iconography of the frontispiece to Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" in "Corpus Christi College Cambridge Manuscript 61". It considers Chaucer in light of orality/literacy theory as well as in relation to prelection, interpreting the work within a political framework. This study demonstrates that the view of Chaucer as a poet of silent reading, and, thus, the view of the Troilus frontispiece as, of necessity, a literary fiction, lacks historical validation. In addition, the frontispiece, by its depiction of an apparently courtly audience, encourages interpretation within a political framework. This work argues that the Corpus Christi Troilus may have been bespoken by Henry V as a tool in the Lancastrian propaganda campaign for the promotion of English as the national language of England. This work will appeal to scholars interested in Chaucer's literary milieu, as well as to historians concerned with the Lancastrian kings or with the history of reading, and will also interest those studying medieval manuscript iconography.
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