The Role of Swine Symbolism in Medieval Culture
- Author / Editor
- Kearney, Milo.
The Role of Swine Symbolism in Medieval Culture
- Published
- Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1991.
- Physical Description
- 384 pp.
- Description
- A general survey referring to the hag of WBT as part of the tradition of women who approach heroes in disguises; to Troilus's dream of Diomedes as a pig, a symbol of lust; and to the Pardoner's counterfeit relics, pig bones.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.