Medical and Moral Authority in the Late Medieval Dream
- Author / Editor
- Kruger, Steven (F.)
Medical and Moral Authority in the Late Medieval Dream
- Published
- Peter Brown, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 51-83.
- Description
- Traces the influence of medieval medical texts on the understanding of the bodily causes of dreaming, arguing that the dreamer's body plays an important role in dreams. In BD, the dream works to masculinize and "heterosexualize" the ailing narrator, although the circularity of the poem may suggest only a temporary restoration.
- Alternative Title
- Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare.