Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages: Arderne, Chaucer, and Hoccleve.

Author / Editor
Turner, Marion.

Title
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