Vincent of Beauvais and the "Houres" of Chaucer's Physician.

Author / Editor
Aiken, Pauline

Title
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