Medicine, Aging, and Sexuality in Chaucer's 'Reeve's Prologue,' 'Merchant's Tale,' and 'Miller's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Everest, Carol Ann.
Medicine, Aging, and Sexuality in Chaucer's 'Reeve's Prologue,' 'Merchant's Tale,' and 'Miller's Tale'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1993): 4331A.
- Description
- Because modern medical theories tend to slight classical and medieval theories (Galen, Aristotle, Avicenna), some of Chaucer's works are usually imperfectly understood. (For instance, flatulence was associated with virility.)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.