Heaviness: Illness, Metaphor, Opportunity.

Author / Editor
McKinstry, Jamie.

Title
Heaviness: Illness, Metaphor, Opportunity.

Published
Postmedieval 8 (2017): 170–78.

Description
Considers "connections between the thinking subject and affected body in the medieval period," focusing on "heaviness" as a state of health and a condition for communication. Cites instances in Mel and TC as examples of external and internal heaviness.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Troilus and Criseyde
Tale of Melibee