Excrement in the late Middle Ages : sacred filth and Chaucer's fecopoetics / Susan Signe Morrison.

SeriesThe new Middle Ages
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) ^A688344
Contents Introduction -- The medieval body : disciplining material and symbolic excrement -- The rhizomatic body -- Moral filth and the sinning body : hell purgatory, resurrection -- Gendered filth -- Chaucerian fecopoetics -- Urban excrement in The Canterbury tales -- Sacred filth : relics, ritual, and remembering in The prioress's tale -- The excremental human god and redemptive filth : The pardoner's tale -- The rhizomatic pilgrim body and alchemical poetry -- Chaucerian fecology and wasteways : The nun's priest's tale -- Looking behind, looking ahead -- Looking behind -- Waste studies : a brief introduction -- Bottoms up! A manifesto for waste studies.
General noteThis book examines medieval discourse on excrement.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [225]-250) and index.
LCCN 2008003859
ISBN1403984883
ISBN9781403984883

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PR 1933.F43 M67 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold