Introduction: Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Introduction: Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer 1
5. Part I: Reading Diseased Skin
6. Doctrinal Dermatologies 19
7. The “Scabbe of Synne:” Reading Leprous Skin in Late Medieval Culture 55
8. Legible Leprosy: Skin Disease in the Testament of Cresseid, Chaucer’s Summoner, and Amis and Amiloun 77
9. Part II: Textual Skins
10. Chaucer’s Ethical Palimpsest: Dermal Reflexivity in the General Prologue 97
11. The Cook’s “Mormal:” Reading Disease, Doubt, and Deviance on the Body of Chaucer’s Cook 119
12. Blushing, Paling, Turning Green: Hue and Its Metapoetic Function in Troilus and Criseyde 145
13. Part III: Writing Dermal Identities
14. Like a Second Skin: Appropriation and (Mis)interpretation of Identities in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and William of Palerne 169
15. Queer Skin in the “Wife of Bath’s Prologue” and Its Manuscript Glosses 195
16. Reconstructing the Pardoner: Transgender Skin Operations in Fragment VI 221
17. Afterword: Skin Matters 251
18. Contributors 265
19. Index 269