"It is a brotherhood": Obscene Storytelling and Fraternal Community in Fifteenth-Century Britain and Today.
- Author / Editor
- Harris, Carissa M.
"It is a brotherhood": Obscene Storytelling and Fraternal Community in Fifteenth-Century Britain and Today.
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2019): 239-66
- Description
- Describes similarities between medieval and modern uses of obscenity to establish homosocial identity and assert power, using evidence from CT manuscripts to clarify the "sexually explicit status" of the late medieval verb "swyven."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Canterbury Tales--General