Thomas Usk and John Arderne

Turner indicates that new evidence suggests that Thomas Usk, author, scribe, reader of Chaucer, and political factionalist, had anal surgery in the 1370s. It tells people more about the circles in which Usk moved and about the community of patients treated by John Arderne, Usk's surgeon. Considering the connection between Arderne and Usk might also encourage them to think more about the place of medical writing in late-medieval textual communities.