Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory.(Book Review)

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Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Seeing Through the Veil: Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), x + 354pp. ISBN 0-8020-3605-8. 42.00 [pounds sterling]/$65.00.

In the dilating study of visual motifs in the medieval period, which the theme of the 2005 London Chaucer Conference can be seen to exemplify, Suzanne Conklin Akbari's contribution is to fuse the use of optical theories with the changing use of allegory. For Akbari, the development of optical theories indicates a shift in belief from the possible identity of sight and ...

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