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010    2017057305 
020    9781108426619|q(hardback : alk. paper) 
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100 1  Walter, Katie L.,|d1980-|eauthor 
245 10 Middle English mouths :|blate medieval medical, religious,
       and literary traditions /|cKatie L. Walter, University of 
       Sussex 
264  1 Cambridge, United Kingdom ;|aNew York, NY :|bCambridge 
       University Press,|c2018 
300    xi, 253 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;|v105 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0  Introduction : Everyday mouths -- Natural knowledge -- The
       reading lesson -- Tasting, eating and knowing -- The 
       epistemology of kissing -- Surgical habits 
520    "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."--|cProvided by publisher 
650  0 Mouth in literature 
650  0 English literature|yMiddle English, 1100-1500|xHistory and
       criticism 
650  0 Medical literature|zEngland|xHistory 
650  0 Religious literature|zEngland|xHistory 
830  0 Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;|v105