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Owing to its relatedness to parchment as the primary writing matter of the Middle Ages, human skin was not only a topic to write about in medieval texts, it was also conceived of as an inscribable surface, both in the material and in the figurative sense. This volume explores the textuality of human skin as discussed by Geoffrey Chaucer and other writers (medical, religious, philosophical, and literary) of the fourteenth and fifteenth century....

This volume explores the complex relations between text, parchment, and human skin in the age of Chaucer. Its ten articles focus on the resonances between parchment-making and transformations of human skin, on parchment as a space of contact between animal and human spheres, and on human skin and parchment as sites where (gender) identities are negotiated.