Parodic Animal Physicians from the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts

Author / Editor
Sprunger, David A.

Title
Parodic Animal Physicians from the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts

Published
Nona C. Flores, ed. Animals in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays (New York: Garland, 1996), pp. 67-81.

Description
Discusses manuscript drolleries that represent physicians, commenting on the conventional clothing of Chaucer's Physician and the flask or jordan the Physician holds in the Ellesmere illumination.

Alternative Title
Animals in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays.

Chaucer Subjects
Physician and His Tale.