The Holy Greyhound: Guinefort, Healer of Children Since the Thirteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Schmitt, Jean-Claude.
The Holy Greyhound: Guinefort, Healer of Children Since the Thirteenth Century
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
- Physical Description
- 215 pp.
- Description
- An exemplum of Stephen of Bourbon, written sometime before 1261, reveals and condemns an odd heresy. Near Lyons, a story has gained currency of a greyhound, slain by its noble master in ill-considered haste, after it had saved the knight's infant from an intruding serpent.
- The research uses the methodologies of folklore, archaeology, literary criticism, and history to interpret the significance of this legend in its medieval context and a magical healing rite that survived in the region until the nineteenth century.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.