'O Sweete Venym Queynte!': Pregnancy and the disabled female body in the Merchant's Tale

Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 25-37

  Pearman, Tory Vandeventer ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

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