Late Medieval Medical, Religious and Literary Traditions /
Katie L. Walter.
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
1 online resource
Cambridge studies in medieval literature
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Everyday Mouths; Reading Habits; Everyday Sense; The Archive; The Chapters; Chapter 1 Natural Knowledge; The Tripartite Soul; Food for Thought: Being, Eating and Speaking; Rereading the Senses: Sensing, Feeling, Knowing; Materialist Interiority; Chapter 2 The Reading Lesson; Seeing Heaven, Eating Earth; Learning to be Upright; Fortunate Falling; 'Goode spuynge'?; The Dreamer's Reading Lessons; Chapter 3 Tasting, Eating and Knowing
Growing Teeth and Beginning to KnowSapientia; Meditatio and Ruminatio; Dinner-Table Ethics; Paradise Lost/Regained; Chapter 4 The Epistemology of Kissing; Spiritual Kisses; 'Kynde' Kisses; Haukyn's Taste for Mouths; Kisses of Betrayal; Chapter 5 Surgical Habits; Barber-Surgeons and Pastoral Care; Oral Surgery; Learning to Speak Well: Grammar and Surgery; Vernacular Habits; Dame Penance; Envy; Bibliography; Manuscripts; Cambridge; Trinity College; Lincoln; Lincoln Cathedral, Dean and Chapter Library; London; British Library; Munich; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; New Haven; Yale Medical Library
OxfordBodleian Library; Oriel College; Printed Works; Index
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First full-length study of the mouth's centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual 'good' in Middle English literature.
9781108426619
English literature-- Middle English, 1100-1500-- History and criticism.