Medieval Body Language: A Study of Use of Gesture in Chaucer's Poetry

Author / Editor
Benson, Robert G.

Title
Medieval Body Language: A Study of Use of Gesture in Chaucer's Poetry

Published
Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Batter, 1980.

Physical Description
170 pp.

Series
Anglistica, no. 21.

Description
Treats Chaucer's use of and experimentation with conventional gesture as modified by genetic considerations in CT, TC, PF,HF, Anel, LGW, BD, Rom, and minor poems. Includes an appendix of relevant passages.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.