The Cook's "Mormal": Reading Disease, Doubt, and Deviance on the Body of Chaucer's Cook.
- Author / Editor
- Sweany, Erin E.
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