'Termes of Phisik': Reading between Literary and Medical Discourses in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and John Lydgate's 'Dietary'

Author / Editor
Walsh, Morrissey Jake.

Title
'Termes of Phisik': Reading between Literary and Medical Discourses in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and John Lydgate's 'Dietary'

Published
DAI A73.02 (2012): n.p.

Description
Considers Chaucer and Lydgate's appropriations of medical discourse (as in GP and KnT) and their introduction of such discourse into the larger English literary culture, including the ramifications for the history of medicine in England.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Knight and His Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion