The Multisensoriality of Place and the Chaucerian Multisensual.

Author / Editor
Newhauser, Richard G.

Title
The Multisensoriality of Place and the Chaucerian Multisensual.

Published
Annette Kern-Stahler, Beatrix Busse, and Wietse de Boer, eds. The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England (Boston: Brill, 2016), pp. 199-218.

Description
Explores the "full sensory expression" in Chaucer's "construction of space," emphasizing the interconnectedness of the five senses in medieval understanding and their ethical dimensions that require proper training to engage volition correctly. Includes observations about these concerns in ParsT, Mel, Bo, SNT, and PF, where the interconnectedness of the senses is an ideal achievable in heavenly places, and dismantled in hellish ones.

Alternative Title
The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England

Chaucer Subjects
Boece
Parliament of Fowls
Tale of Melibee
Second Nun and Her Tale
Parson and His Tale