Middle English Mouths: Late Medieval Medical, Religious and Literary Traditions.

Author / Editor
Walter, Katie.

Title
Middle English Mouths: Late Medieval Medical, Religious and Literary Traditions.

Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Physical Description
xi, 253 pp.

Description
Explores the transgressive and reparative potential of the mouth in medieval thinking--scientific, pastoral, and literary (especially "Piers Plowman"). Includes no sustained attention to Chaucer's works, but the index lists nearly forty references to them.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism