The Grain and the Spirit in Mediaeval Anatomy.
- Author / Editor
- Hill, Boyd H., Jr.
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