Medical and Moral Interpretations of Plague and Pestilence in Later Middle English Texts
- Author / Editor
- Stieve, Edwin M.
Medical and Moral Interpretations of Plague and Pestilence in Later Middle English Texts
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1989): 3037A.
- Description
- Surveys medical and historical writing as well as clerical interpretations of the bubonic plague. Treating literary representation of the plague as emblematic of ethical and societal cataclysm, Stieve considers the role of the plague in the writings of Langland, Chaucer, and Lydgate.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.