The Severed Head: Images of the Body in Old and Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Godfrey, Mary Flavia.
The Severed Head: Images of the Body in Old and Middle English Literature
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1992): 492A.
- Description
- Beheading appears frequently in Indo-European, Old Germanic, and Old and Middle English narratives, with varying connotations. The textual history of PrT shows this element as sometimes deleted and sometimes restored.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.