The Severed Head: Images of the Body in Old and Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
Godfrey, Mary Flavia.

Title
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.