Unruly Bodies and Ruling Practices: Chaucer's 'Physician's Tale' as Socially Symbolic Act
- Author / Editor
- Lomperis, Linda.
Unruly Bodies and Ruling Practices: Chaucer's 'Physician's Tale' as Socially Symbolic Act
- Published
- Linda Lomperis and Sarah Stanbury, eds. Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), pp. 21-37.
- Description
- A historical examination of female sexual autonomy and medieval physicians' social and academic roles illuminates PhyT.
- The Physician's focus on Virginia's spirituality rather than on her physical beauty reveals a male-dominated power struggle over a woman. PhyT is "both a complex embodiment of and a politically charged commentary on various social forces in its late medieval British environment."
- Alternative Title
- Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale.