Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Grigsby, Bryon Lee.
Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
- Published
- New York and London: Routledge, 2004.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 206 pp.
- Series
- Studies in Medieval History and Culture, no. 23.
- Description
- Grigsby considers leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis, focusing on how they were constructed as moral phenomena and how literary depictions contributed to historical developments in our (mis)understandings of them.
- Examines a range of texts, including PardT, in which false oaths are connected to the plague; and the GP description of the Summoner, through which Chaucer condemns lechery and the failure of ecclesiastical supervision.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Summoner and His Tale.