The 'Summoner's Tale' and Medieval Attitudes Towards Sickness
- Author / Editor
- Gallacher, Patrick J.
The 'Summoner's Tale' and Medieval Attitudes Towards Sickness
- Published
- Chaucer Review 21 (1986): 200-12.
- Description
- From Greek medicine, the concept of the six "non-naturals" intensifies and clarifies the relationship between the friar and Thomas and throws light on the summoner in FrT. The "non-naturals" are circumstances that affect health: air, sleep and wakefulness, motion and rest, evacuation and repletion, food and drink, and the passions of the mind.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale.
- Friar and His Tale.