Medieval Gluttony and Drunkenness: Consuming Sin in Chaucer and Langland

Author / Editor
Brosamer, Matthew James.

Title
Medieval Gluttony and Drunkenness: Consuming Sin in Chaucer and Langland

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4643A.

Description
Assesses gluttony in CT and Piers Plowman, arguing that each presents consumption as both an occasion of the sin and part of its symbolic apparatus. In these works and in scriptural and patristic traditions, gluttony signifies human potential for all sins.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.