A Medieval Heteroglossia: Expressing Disease and Healing in Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Renevey, Denis.
A Medieval Heteroglossia: Expressing Disease and Healing in Medieval England
- Published
- PoeticaT 72 (2009): 93-107.
- Description
- Uses the Middle English translation of Lanfranc of Milan's "Chirurgia magna" ("The Science of Cirurgie") to help explore the compromise between authority and experience in TC, where Pandarus injects the language of experience into his uses of medical terminology to challenge traditional understanding of lovesickness, leading to Troilus' death. Also comments on the GP description of the Physician.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Physician and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations