Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry: Poets, Practitioners, and the Plague.

Description: Addresses issues of disease, medical practice, faith, household remedy, and gender in fourteenth-and fifteenth-century Middle English "medical discourse," often found embedded in or juxtaposed to broader works, including narrative poetry that engages to greater or lesser degrees the Black Death. Chapter 1, "Honoring Stories of Illness in Chaucer," focuses on the poet's generally oblique references to plague in CT and on instances where "dialogue and storytelling" initiate or engage with the topic of physical or spiritual healing, considering especially the GP Physician, PhyT, Mel, PardPT, KnT, and NPT; also assesses other works

Chaucer Subjects: Background and General Criticism
Knight and His Tale
Physician and His Tale
Pardoner and His Tale
Tale of Melibee
Nun's Priest and His Tale