Month: August 2011

Articles

“Of Fish and Flesh and Tender Breede / Of Win Both White and Reede”: Eating and Drinking in Middle English Narrative Texts

It is the aim of this study to take a look at some examples of the reflection in Middle English narrative texts of the remaining physiological necessity – eating and drinking – in an attempt to analyse and evaluate the ways in which these all too human activities are exploited for literary purposes in the period with which are concerned