Eyes and Appetites in the 'Merchant's Tale'

Author / Editor
Seal, Samantha Katz.

Title
Eyes and Appetites in the 'Merchant's Tale'

Published
ChauR 48.03 (2014): 284-306

Description
Contextualizes MerT by looking at medieval scientific writings on "pica" ("deviant pregnancy cravings") and the medieval "pathology of pregnancy," assessing May's pregnancy and her "sexual longings."

Chaucer Subjects
Merchant and His Tale