Another Look at Chaucer and the Physiognomists

Author / Editor
Friedman, John Block.

Title
Another Look at Chaucer and the Physiognomists

Published
Studies in Philology 78 (1981): 138-52.

Description
As contrasted to W. C. Curry's "humoral physiognomy," another type, "affective physiognomy," involving such details as movement of eyes or eyebrows and color of cheeks, is restricted in use to aristocratic or courtly characters, not those of the fabliau world.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.