Middle English Mouths
Title | Middle English Mouths PDF eBook |
Author | Katie L. Walter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2018-06-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108426611 |
First full-length study of the mouth's centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual 'good' in Middle English literature.
Middle English Mouths
Title | Middle English Mouths PDF eBook |
Author | Katie L. Walter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 539 |
Release | 2018-06-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108565204 |
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.
The Middle English Ideal of Personal Beauty
Title | The Middle English Ideal of Personal Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Clyde Curry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Historical Outlines of English Phonology and Middle English Grammar
Title | Historical Outlines of English Phonology and Middle English Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Moore |
Publisher | |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
Old and Middle English
Title | Old and Middle English PDF eBook |
Author | Kington Oliphant |
Publisher | |
Pages | 704 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Philology of the English Tongue
Title | The Philology of the English Tongue PDF eBook |
Author | John Earle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 714 |
Release | 1873 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
The Century Dictionary
Title | The Century Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1346 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | |
ISBN |