Abstract:

The Kelmscott Chaucer (1896) is recognised as the crowning achievement of William Morris’s Kelmscott Press. In 1921, a copy of this book housed in the State Library of New South Wales was beautifully rebound in tooled kangaroo hide. We show that in the process of attempting to transform the Kelmscott Chaucer into an Australian cultural artefact, this rebinding illuminates Australian medievalism, the philosophy of the Kelmscott Press (which tends to hybridise the medieval and the modern), Chaucer’s depiction of materiality and surface in ‘The Canterbury Tales’, and the relationship between colonial and long-standing Indigenous Australian uses of kangaroo skin.

摘要：

《凯尔斯科特乔叟》（Kelmscott Chaucer，1896 年）被认为是威廉·莫里斯的凯尔斯科特出版社的最高成就。1921 年，新南威尔士州州立图书馆收藏了这本书的一本，精美地用袋鼠皮制作而成。我们表明，在试图将凯尔姆斯科特·乔叟转变为澳大利亚文化艺术品的过程中，这种重新装订阐明了澳大利亚的中世纪主义、凯尔姆斯科特出版社的哲学（倾向于混合中世纪和现代）、乔叟在作品中对物质性和表面的描述。 《坎特伯雷故事集》，以及殖民时期和澳大利亚土著长期使用袋鼠皮之间的关系。