Parchment Ethics: A Statement of More Than Modest Concern
- Author / Editor
- Holsinger, Bruce.
Parchment Ethics: A Statement of More Than Modest Concern
- Published
- New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 131-36.
- Description
- Reports the finds of "Dr. Lollius" who reputedly discovered, through DNA analysis of "covertly obtained slivers of parchment and vellum," that several extant Chaucer manuscript are "human skin." The pseudo-report is offered to provoke contemplation of the slaughter of animals for the purpose of preserving human culture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
- Troilus and Criseyde