The Grain and the Spirit in Mediaeval Anatomy.

Author / Editor
Hill, Boyd H., Jr.

Title
The Grain and the Spirit in Mediaeval Anatomy.

Published
Speculum 39 (1965): 63-73.

Description
Suggests that the "greyn" placed on the clergeon's tongue by the Virgin in PrT 7.662 may represent that his "disembodied spirit [was] restored for a time," offering contextualizing background from biblical, classical, and medieval scientific sources on spirit-body relations. Also comments on how Arcite's "spirit chaunged hous" in KnT 1.2809.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale