Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Books
  3. Middle English Mouths
  • Cited by 18
      • Show more authors
      • You may already have access via personal or institutional login
    • Select format
    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      26 June 2018
      21 June 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108551106
      9781108426619
      9781108445290
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108551106
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 268 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 274 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, Religion, Religion: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (105)
    You may already have access via personal or institutional login
    • Selected: Digital
    Add to cart View cart Buy from Cambridge.org
    Subjects:
    Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, Religion, Religion: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (105)
    Information

    Book description

    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.

    Reviews

    'A genuinely interdisciplinary achievement, Middle English Mouths will be of great value equally to literary scholars interested especially in Langland’s Piers Plowman, scholars of medieval medicine and science (including multisenoriality), Christianity and soteriology, speech and song, vernacular theology and intellectual history.'

    Sarah Star Source: Medium Ævum

    Refine List

    Actions for selected content:

    Select all | Deselect all
    • View selected items
    • Export citations
    • Download PDF (zip)
    • Save to Kindle
    • Save to Dropbox
    • Save to Google Drive

    Save Search

    You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

    Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
    Cancel
    ×

    Contents

    Contents
    • Chapter 5 - Surgical Habits
      pp 144-172
        • You have access
      • PDF
      • HTML
      • Export citation
    References

    Metrics

    Altmetric attention score

    Full text views

    Total number of HTML views: 0
    Total number of PDF views: 0 *
    Loading metrics...

    Book summary page views

    Total views: 0 *
    Loading metrics...

    * Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

    Usage data cannot currently be displayed.

    Accessibility standard: Unknown

    Why this information is here

    This section outlines the accessibility features of this content - including support for screen readers, full keyboard navigation and high-contrast display options. This may not be relevant for you.

    Accessibility Information

    Accessibility compliance for the HTML of this book is currently unknown and may be updated in the future.