Legible Leprosy: Skin Disease in the "Testament of Cresseid," Chaucer's Summoner, and "Amis and Amiloun."
- Author / Editor
- Rhodes, Sharon E.
Legible Leprosy: Skin Disease in the "Testament of Cresseid," Chaucer's Summoner, and "Amis and Amiloun."
- Published
- In Nicole Nyffenegger and Katrin Rupp, eds. Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2918), pp. 77-94.
- Description
- Argues that leprosy was seen in the later Middle Ages as a "broad category of skin diseases rooted in sin." Suggests that Robert Henryson's Cresseid, Chaucer's Summoner, and Amiloun were questionable characters whose diseased skins can be viewed as "texts" indicating their iniquities.
- Alternative Title
- Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Summoner and His Tale