Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages: Arderne, Chaucer, and Hoccleve.
- Author / Editor
- Turner, Marion.
Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages: Arderne, Chaucer, and Hoccleve.
- Published
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 46.1 (2016): 61-87.
- Description
- Explores how John Arderne, Chaucer, and Thomas Hoccleve use the language of illness and healing in a wide range of texts, noting that the narrators present themselves as "flawed and sick" and that their narratives, like their bodies, are "not wholly under their control."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism