Queer Blood.
- Author / Editor
- Barr, Helen.
Queer Blood.
- Published
- Bonnie Lander-Johnson and Eleanor Decamp, eds. Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400-1700 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), pp. 238-48.
- Description
- Describes the iconography of Thomas Becket's blood in Canterbury Cathedral and its “Christomimetic” associations, and explores parallels between Becket's blood and the Pardoner's blood in the "Canterbury Interlude" that precedes the "Tale of Beryn," suggesting the latter can be read as a queer, "deviant strain of . . . redemptive blood" and analyzing the implications of this suggestion.
- Contributor
- Lander-Johnson, Bonnie, ed.
Decamp, Eleanor, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400-1700.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha