Sight and Sexual Performance in the Merchant's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Everest, Carol A.
Sight and Sexual Performance in the Merchant's Tale
- Published
- Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998) pp. 91-103.
- Description
- From the perspective of medieval psychology, January's pretensions to youth and sexual vigor are ridiculous and potentially fatal, since his sexual overactivity diminishes vital spirits and causes, among other effects, blindness and eventually death.
- Alternative Title
- Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.