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Middle English Mouths - Late Medieval Medical, Religious and Literary Traditions (Hardcover)
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Middle English Mouths - Late Medieval Medical, Religious and Literary Traditions (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
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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.
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