"Bonum est mortis meditari": Meanings and Functions of the Medieval Double Macabre Portrait.

Author / Editor
DeLuca, Dominique.

Title
"Bonum est mortis meditari": Meanings and Functions of the Medieval Double Macabre Portrait.

Published
Albrecht Classen, ed. Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: The Material and Spiritual Conditions of the Culture of Death (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), pp. 239-61.

Description
Refers to the death-bearing rioters in PardT as an example of the theme, found in medieval art, of "death as living within" the body.

Alternative Title
Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations