With Us Ther Was a Doctour of Phisik
- Author / Editor
- Eleazar, Edwin.
With Us Ther Was a Doctour of Phisik
- Published
- Laura C. Lambdin and Robert T. Lambdin, eds. Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in the "Canterbury Tales" (Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 220-42.
- Description
- Describes medieval medical education and explains the theory and practice of medieval physicians and surgeons as background to the GP sketch of the Physician. Some details of the sketch accord well with typical medieval medical activities, while others suggest possibilities of malpractice or unethical behavior. Chaucer's portrait is equivocal.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale.
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.