Vincent of Beauvais and the "Houres" of Chaucer's Physician.
- Author / Editor
- Aiken, Pauline
Vincent of Beauvais and the "Houres" of Chaucer's Physician.
- Published
- Studies in Philology 53 (1956): 22-24.
- Description
- Adduces Vincent of Beauvais' "Speculum Doctrinale" to support reading "houres" in Chaucer's description of the Physician (GP 1.416) as a plural of "the technical Latin term for each stage of the development of a disease."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale
Language and Word Studies