Come Hell or High Water: Aqueous Moments in Medieval Epic, Romance, Allegory, and Fabliau

Author / Editor
Scott, Anne.

Title
Come Hell or High Water: Aqueous Moments in Medieval Epic, Romance, Allegory, and Fabliau

Published
Cynthia Kosso and Anne Scott, eds. The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity Through the Renaissance (Boston: Brill, 2009), pp. 407-26.

Description
Scott addresses use of water imagery in medieval narratives. In MilT, flood imagery affects all classes of society and provides a common experience through which the satire of each individual class can occur.

Contributor
Kosso, Cynthia, ed.
Scott, Anne, ed.

Alternative Title
The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity Through the Renaissance.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.