Demonic Prosthesis and the Walking Dead: The Materiality of Chaucer's Green Yeoman.
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, Alastair.
Demonic Prosthesis and the Walking Dead: The Materiality of Chaucer's Green Yeoman.
- Published
- New Medieval Literatures 22 (2022): 114-61.
- Description
- Assesses the demonic presence in FrT (the Green Yeoman), placing "Chaucerian demonology within a wider intellectual and cultural context" from St. Augustine to the "Malleus maleficarum." Surveys views on demonic/angelic presence as apparition, material airish embodiment, and/or possessed cadavers in academic theology and in demotic religion, arguing that airish embodiment best fits Chaucer's depiction and linking it with modern prosthetic concerns.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations