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Middle English mouths : late medieval medical, religious, and literary traditions
- Title
- Middle English mouths : late medieval medical, religious, and literary traditions / Katie L. Walter, University of Sussex.
- Author
- Walter, Katie L., 1980-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Description
- xi, 253 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The mouth, responsible for both physical and spiritual functions - eating, drinking, breathing, praying and confessing - was of immediate importance to medieval thinking about the nature of the human being. Where scholars have traditionally focused on the mouth's grotesque excesses, Katie L. Walter argues for the recuperation of its material 'everyday' aspect. Walter's original study draws on two rich archives: one comprising Middle English theology (Langland, Julian of Norwich, Lydgate, Chaucer) and pastoral writings; the other broadly medical and surgical, including learned encyclopaedias and vernacular translations and treatises. Challenging several critical orthodoxies about the centrality of sight, the hierarchy of the senses and the separation of religious from medical discourses, the book reveals the centrality of the mouth, taste and touch to human modes of knowing and to Christian identity.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge sudies in medieval literature ; 105
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 105.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Everyday mouths -- Natural knowledge -- The reading lesson -- Tasting, eating, and knowing -- The epistemology of kissing -- Surgical habits.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-1790
- ISBN
- 9781108426619
- 1108426611
- LCCN
- 2017057305
- OCLC
- 1035750114
- Author
- Walter, Katie L., 1980- author.
- Title
- Middle English mouths : late medieval medical, religious, and literary traditions / Katie L. Walter, University of Sussex.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge sudies in medieval literature ; 105Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 105.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1100-1500
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108552424
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-1790