Food, Laxatives, and the Catharsis in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale

Author / Editor
Gallacher, Patrick (J.)

Title
Food, Laxatives, and the Catharsis in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale

Published
Speculum 51 (1976): 49-68.

Description
Many medieval sources describe food and purgation as having moral, theological, and metaphysical meanings. In NPT the interrelationships between food, humors, emotions, free will, and divine foreknowledge point to a model of continuous intelligibility in the universe.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale.