'O Sweete Venym Queynte!': Pregnancy and the Disabled Female Body in the 'Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Pearman, Tory Vandeventer.
'O Sweete Venym Queynte!': Pregnancy and the Disabled Female Body in the 'Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Joshua R. Eyler, ed. Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 25-37.
- Description
- Explores a "gendered model of disability" in MerT, where the carnivalesque grotesqueness of May's performed pregnancy replaces January's blindness and impotence as a kind of disability.
- Alternative Title
- Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.