Gestures and looks played an even more important role in public and privateexchanges of medieval society than they do today. Gestures meant more thanwords for e... » 

Gestures and looks played an even more important role in public and privateexchanges of medieval society than they do today. Gestures meant more thanwords for example in ceremonies of homage and fealty. In this compellingstudy medievalist Burrow examines the role of nonverbal communication in arange of narrative texts including Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde theanonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Malorys Morte Darthur theromances of Chr tien de Troyes the prose Lancelot Boccaccios Il Filostratoand Dantes Commedia. «