A New Look at an Old Patient: Chaucer's Summoner and Medieval Physiognmia
- Author / Editor
- Braswell-Means, Laurel.
A New Look at an Old Patient: Chaucer's Summoner and Medieval Physiognmia
- Published
- Chaucer Review 25 (1991): 266-75.
- Description
- Discusses Chaucer's characterization of the Summoner in GP and asserts that, despite modern assumptions, it is based on the confluence of medical and astrological theories prevalent during Chaucer's time.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Summoner and His Tale.