Narratives of Healing: Emotion, Medicine, Metaphor, and Late-medieval Poetry and Prose (John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, Diego de San Pedro, Spain)Palmer, James Milton. "Narratives of Healing: Emotion, Medicine, Metaphor, and Late-medieval Poetry and Prose (John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, Diego de San Pedro, Spain)." PhD thesis, Purdue University, 2002. Review“As Barbara Rosenwein has noted, very little attention has been given to the history of emotions other than love. Posing the question “What is an emotion??; in a book of the same title, Calhoun and Solomon attempt to present a history of emotion by providing selections from writers over the centuries. The modern and early modern eras are clearly well represented; the Middle Ages, ignored. The editorial skip from Aristotle to Descartes wrongfully implies that little was written on the topic in medieval times, and that emotions were not taken very seriously by medical, philosophical, ecclesiastical, and secular authorities and authors during the time period. By placing John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale" and "Troilus and Criseyde," and Diego de San Pedro's "Cárcel de Amor" in their specific medical and affective contexts, this dissertation addresses the importance of emotion to medieval authors.? [JGN 23.1]
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