Promiscuous Fictions : Medieval Bawdy Tales and Their Textual Liaisons

Author / Editor
Nolan, Barbara.

Title
Promiscuous Fictions : Medieval Bawdy Tales and Their Textual Liaisons

Published
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1999), pp. 79-105.

Description
Comments on similarities between the mixture of bawdy and sublime in CT and in other medieval tales, collections, and contexts, exploring how bawdiness challenges official discourse. Examines at length Henri d'Andeli's aristocratic fabliau, "Aristote," and its occurrences in various kinds of anthologies.

Alternative Title
Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.