The Cook's "Mormal": Reading Disease, Doubt, and Deviance on the Body of Chaucer's Cook.

Author / Editor
Sweany, Erin E.

Title
The Cook's "Mormal": Reading Disease, Doubt, and Deviance on the Body of Chaucer's Cook.

Published
In Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp, eds. Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2918), pp. 119-44.

Description
Reads the Cook's ulcer as potential leprosy in an effort to show how such signs on the skin act as points of uncertainty that impact the relationships among the pilgrims.

Alternative Title
Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Cook and His Tale