Your Malady Is No 'Sodeyn Hap': Ophthalmology, Benvenutus Grassus, and January's Blindness
- Author / Editor
- Palmer, James M.
Your Malady Is No 'Sodeyn Hap': Ophthalmology, Benvenutus Grassus, and January's Blindness
- Published
- Chaucer Review 41 (2006): 197-205.
- Description
- Considered in the light of writings by thirteenth-century ophthalmologist Benvenutus Grassus, January's blindness in MerT is no sudden infirmity. With his admitted habit of "overindulgence" in women, food, and drink, January has been working on becoming blind for quite some time.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.