Reading "Ful Savourly": Taste and Good Taste in Later Medieval English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Flannery, Mary C.
Reading "Ful Savourly": Taste and Good Taste in Later Medieval English Literature.
- Published
- Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Literature and the Senses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 271-88.
- Description
- Explores connections between the physiological sense of taste (especially sweetness) and the aesthetic sense of good (or bad) taste, emphasizing their ambivalence in medieval understanding and the need for discernment that such ambivalence entails. Argues that the bottom-kissing scene in MilT shows that knowledge can be acquired sensorially, and how its diction of taste ("sweete," "savourly") "invites readers to reflect on what kind of narrative they consider to be in good taste."
- Alternative Title
- Literature and the Senses
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale
Language and Word Studies