A New Reading of the Host's 'in terme' ('Canterbury Tales' VI, Line 311)
- Author / Editor
- Stieve, Edwin (M).
A New Reading of the Host's 'in terme' ('Canterbury Tales' VI, Line 311)
- Published
- Notes and Queries 232 (1987): 7-10.
- Description
- The Host's phrase, addressed to the Physician, has the double sense of "learnedly" and "in rhetorical terminology," which is appropriate since in medieval doctrine rhetoric healed the mind as medicine healed the body. Chaucer would have known of the rhetorical training that Isidore and medieval medical authorites recommended for physicians.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Physician and His Tale.