Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Rogers, Will.
Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England.
- Published
- Leeds: Arc Humanities, 2021.
- Physical Description
- vii, 149 pp.
- Series
- Borderlines.
- Description
- Opens with commentary on oldness in KnT, MilT, and RvT, and proceeds to assess old age as a source "of debility and impairment as well as authority and veneration" in Scog, Adam, the Reeve’s description in GP, RvPT, and WBT. Disability studies and narrative as prosthesis recur as concerns in analyzing these works along with "Parlement of the Thre Ages"; "Wynnere and Wastoure"; Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes" and "La male regle", and Caxton's printings of them; and the role of Gower in Shakespeare's "Pericles."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Knight and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale