Iconography and the professional reader: the politics of book production in the Douce Piers Plowman

Introduction / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

Pt. I. Visual Politics / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton. 1. Visual Literacy and the Iconography of Reformist Polemics. 2. Visual Literacy and the Iconography of Social Dissent. 3. The Professional Reader as Annotator. 4. Visual Politics

Pt. II. Visual Heuristics / Denise L. Despres. 5. Visualizing the Text: The Heuristics of the Page. 6. Visual Heuristics. Conclusion: Reading Piers Plowman in a Manuscript Culture / Denise L. Despres

App. 1. The Hands of Douce's Main Scribe and Corrector-Annotator

App. 2. The Marginal Annotations of Douce 104: A Complete Transcription.