Contents
Introduction
Interrelations, Transformations, and Reception of Words and Images in Medieval
Manuscripts and Early Printed Books ...1
Chapter 1: “Who peyntede the leon, tel me who?”: The Wife of Bath’s Identity as Constructed by Fifteenth-Century Editors of the Canterbury Tales ...17
Chapter 2: The Nun and the Courtly Lady: Convention and Subversion in Chaucer’s Prioress ...37
Chapter 3: Fool or “fair burgeys”? The Cook, the Miller, and Their Tales in Fifteenth-Century Manuscript and Print ...55
Chapter 4: Fools, “Folye”, and Caxton’s Woodcut of the Pilgrims at Table ...72
Chapter 5: Accounts of the “Other” through Words and Images: The Squire’s Tale and The Book of John Mandeville...87
Conclusion ...102
Illustrations ...104
Bibliography ...127
1 Primary Sources...127
2. Secondary Sources ...129
List of Illustrations
Figure 1.1
The Wife of Bath, San Marino, Huntington Library, MS EL 26 C 9 (c. 1400-1410), fol. 72r.
Figure 1.2
The Wife of Bath, Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.4.27 (c. 1400-1420), fol. 222r.
Figure 1.3
The Fall of Aristotle, Augustinermuseum, Freiburg-im-Breisgau, detail from the Malterer tapestry, c. 1320-1330.
Fig. 1.4
Grace de Dieu and pilgrim, Le Pèlerinage de la vie humaine (c. 1400), Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 300, fol. 32v.
Figure 1.5
The Wife of Bath, Canterbury Tales (1483), London, British Library, IB. 55095 (STC 5083), sig.
q6v.
Figure 1.6
The Wife of Bath, Canterbury Tales (1483), Oxford, St. John’s College MS 266/ b.2.21, sig. q6v.
Figure 2.1
The Prioress, San Marino, Huntington Library, MS EL 26 C 9 (c. 1400-1410), fol. 148v.
Figure 2.2
The Prioress, Canterbury Tales (1483), London, British Library, IB. 55095 (STC 5083), sig. a5v.
Figure 2.3
The pilgrims at table, Canterbury Tales (1483), London, British Library, IB. 55095 (STC 5083), sig. c4r.
Figure 2.4
The pilgrims at table, Canterbury Tales (1492), London, British Library, IB. 55484 (STC 5084), sig. c2v.
Figure 2.5
Papelardie (Hypocrisy): a woman in nun’s habit, Roman de la Rose, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 57 (1348), fol. 4r.
Figure 2.6
The Large Love Garden (1465), Master E. S., The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Figure 3.1
The Cook, Canterbury Tales, San Marino, Huntington Library, MS EL 26 C 9 (c. 1400-1410), fol. 47r. Figure 3.2
The Cook, Canterbury Tales, Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.4.27 (c. 1420-1440), fol. 192v.
Figure 3.3
The Cook, Canterbury Tales, Philadelphia, Rosenbach Library, MS 1084/2 (c. 1440-50).
Figure 3.4
Beggars, Speculum historiale, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Français 50 (1463), fol. 296r.
Figure 3.5
Reapers (detail from Month of July), Très Riches Heures (c. 1410), Musée Condé, Chantilly, MS 65, fol.
7v.
Figure 3.6
Allegory of the senses, De proprietatibus rerum, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Français 218 (15th century), fol. 373r.
Figure 3.7
Fool, Bible historiale, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Français 159 (15th century), fol. 269r.
Figure 3.9
The Cook, Canterbury Tales (1483), London, British Library, IB. 55095 (STC 5083), sig. i5r.
Figure 3.10
The Cook, Canterbury Tales (1483), Oxford, St. John’s College, MS 266/ b.2.21, sig. i5r.
Figure 3.11
The Cook, Canterbury Tales (1483), Oxford, St. John’s College, MS 266/ b.2.21, sig. b3v.
Figure 3.12
The Miller, Canterbury Tales, San Marino, Huntington Library, MS EL 26 C 9 (c. 1400-1410), fol. 34v.
Figure 3.13
Sow with bagpipe and fool exposing his genitals, Pseudo-Aristotle’s De caelo, De anima, British Library, MS Sloane 748 (1487), fol. 82v.
Figure 3.14
The Miller, Canterbury Tales, Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS English 63.
Figure 3.15
The Miller, Canterbury Tales (1483), Oxford, St. John’s College, MS 266/ b.2.21, sig. b7v.
Figure 3.16
The Miller, Canterbury Tales (1483), London, British Library, IB. 55095 (STC 5083), sig. g4v.
Fig. 4.1.
The pilgrims at table, Canterbury Tales (1483), Oxford, St. John’s College, MS 266/ b.2.21, sig.c4r.
Figure 4.2
Fool disputing with monk, Psalter, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. G. 185 (c. 1348-1374), fol. 43v. Figure 4.3
Stultitia, Cappella degli Scrovegni, Padova, 1304-1308.
Figure 4.4
Fool with green club and yellow tunic, Psalter, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Liturg. 378 (15th century, beginning), fol. 59v.
Figure 4.5
Fool wearing particoloured costume with bells, Psalter, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Lat.
114 (c.1260), fol. 71r.
Figure 4.6
Fool disputing with God and amorous courtly couple, The Great Bible, London, British Library, MS Royal 1 E IX (1st quarter of the fifteenth century), fol. 148r.
Figure 4.7
The Garden of Love from the Housebook manuscript (c. 1475-1485), Master of the Housebook (private collection of the Waldburg family)
Figure 4.8
Design for a stained-glass quatrefoil portraying scenes of courtly love, after the Master of the Housebook, c. 1475-1490.
Figure 4.9
Luxuria and the fool (c. 1467), engraving by Master E. S., Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett.
Figure 5.1
The Squire, San Marino, Huntington Library, MS EL 26 C 9 (c. 1400-1410), fol. 115v.
Figure 5.2
The Squire, Canterbury Tales (1483), London, British Library, IB. 55095 (STC 5083), sig. n8v.
Figure 5.3
The Knight, Canterbury Tales (1483), Oxford, St. John’s College, MS 266/ b.2.21, sig. a3v.
Figure 5.4
The Squire, Canterbury Tales (1483), Oxford, St. John’s College, MS 266/ b.2.21, sig. a4v.
Figure 5.5
The Great Khan’s banquet hall, Sir John Mandeville’s Travels, London, British Library, MS Harley 3954 (c. 1430), fol. 46r.
Figure 5.6
Kubla Khan’s birthday feast, Li Livres du Graunt Caam, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264, (c. 1400-1410), fol. 239r.
Figure 5.7
Portrait of Richard II on wooden panel (c. 1390), Westminster Abbey.
Figure 5.8
The Squire (detail from the Ellesmere miniature) and king Richard II (detail from the Westminster Abbey portrait).
