The Role of Swine Symbolism in Medieval Culture

Author / Editor
Kearney, Milo.

Title
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.