Mediaeval Medicine and Arcite’s Love Sickeness
M. Ciavolella
Florilegium, vol. 1 (1979)
Introduction
In The Allegory of Love C. S. Lewis, commenting upon the tendency of critics to read their own ideas into the works of Chaucer, wrote: The stupidest contemporary, we many depend upon it, know certain things about Chaucer’s poetry which modern scholarship will never know; and doubtless the best of us misunderstand Chaucer in many places where the veriest fool among his audience could not have misunderstood.
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