Bottom-Kissing and the Fragility of Status in Chaucer's "Miller's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Friedman, John Block.
Bottom-Kissing and the Fragility of Status in Chaucer's "Miller's Tale."
- Published
- Chaucer Review 54.2 (2019): 119-40.
- Description
- Focuses on a study of status in MilT and traces the positioning of Nicholas and Alisoun and their displays of their buttocks in the window toward Absolon. Fleshing out the context and history of bottom-kissing as well as the averting of demons by open displays of the buttocks and/or genitals, maps out how Absolon and Nicholas highlight the fragility of status in the tale.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale