"May medica": Divine Healing and the Garden in "The Merchant’s Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Zygogianni, Maria.
"May medica": Divine Healing and the Garden in "The Merchant’s Tale."
- Published
- Medieval Feminist Forum 58 (2022): 106-27.
- Description
- Examines May of MerT as a version of the motif of the healing woman, familiar "across medieval literary genres from romance to hagiography." The fabliau setting of the tale, however, inverts a range of "courtly and religious hierarchies" as May performs an "anti-healing miracle" and maintains control of her husband, her lover, her body, the "spaces of the tale."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale