From Romance to Vision: The Life of Breath in Medieval Literary Texts.

Author / Editor
Saunders, Corinne.

Title
From Romance to Vision: The Life of Breath in Medieval Literary Texts.

Published
David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, and Jane Macnaughton, eds. The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 87-109.

Description
Describes various depictions of breath, breathlessness, and "vital spirits" that signal deep emotion in medieval literature, including comments on BD, TC, and KnT, among other courtly and religious works.

Contributor
Saunders, Corinne, ed.
Macnaughton, Jane, ed.

Alternative Title
The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Book of the Duchess
Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale