| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in medieval literature |
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Cambridge studies in medieval literature.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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OxfordBodleian Library; Oriel College; Printed Works; Index |
| Summary |
First full-length study of the mouth's centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual 'good' in Middle English literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed June 29, 2018) |
| Subject |
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Middle English
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Literatur
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Mittelenglisch
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Mund Motiv
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108552424 |
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1108552420 |
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9781108551106 |
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1108551106 |
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