An Iconography of Noses: Directions in the History of a Physical Styereotype

Author / Editor
David, Alfred.

Title
An Iconography of Noses: Directions in the History of a Physical Styereotype

Published
Jane Chance and R. O. Wells, Jr., eds. Mapping the Cosmos. (Houston, Tex.: Rice University Press, 1985), pp. 76-97.

Description
Examines physiognomical traditions of noses in medieval "descriptio" in rhetoric books, noses of the Miller and Prioress in GP, noses in RvT, and noses in French romances and in later literature.

Contributor
Chance, Jane,
Wells, R. O., Jr.,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
Mapping the Cosmos.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Reeve and His Tale.