Anxieties at Table: Food and Drink in Chaucer's Fabliaux tales and Heinrich Wittenwiler's' Der Ring'

Author / Editor
Friedman, John Block.

Title
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