Anxieties at Table: Food and Drink in Chaucer's Fabliaux tales and Heinrich Wittenwiler's' Der Ring'
- Author / Editor
- Friedman, John Block.
Anxieties at Table: Food and Drink in Chaucer's Fabliaux tales and Heinrich Wittenwiler's' Der Ring'
- Published
- Emma Cayley and Susan Powell, eds. Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 1350-1550: Packaging, Presentation, and Consumption (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013), pp. 169-86..
- Description
- Analyzes Chaucer and Wittenwiler from the "perspective of anxiety at the table." Explores how "food- and drink-conveyed class anxieties are used as plot devices" to develop action in MlT, RvT, and "Der Ring." Also mentions possible connections between MerT and "Der Ring."
- Alternative Title
- Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 1350-1550: Packaging, Presentation, and Consumption.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
- Reeve and His Tale
- Merchant and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations