Chaucer's Physicians: Their Texts, Contexts, and the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Skerpan, Elizabeth Penley.
Chaucer's Physicians: Their Texts, Contexts, and the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 5 (1984): 41-54.
- Description
- Explores Chaucer's depictions of physicians, focusing on how they exemplify the tension between "medici corporals" (bodily medicine) and "spirituals" (spiritual medicine). None of Chaucer's physicians exhibit an ideal balance; Chaucer explores a contemporary debate without seeking to resolve it. Skerpan considers the Physician, the Pardoner, and the physicians of Mel.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Tale of Melibee