An edition of Excrement in the late Middle Ages (2008)

Excrement in the late Middle Ages

sacred filth and Chaucer's fecopoetics

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An edition of Excrement in the late Middle Ages (2008)

Excrement in the late Middle Ages

sacred filth and Chaucer's fecopoetics

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Palgrave Macmillan
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English

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Cover of: Excrement in the late Middle Ages
Excrement in the late Middle Ages: sacred filth and Chaucer's fecopoetics
2008, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
Cover of: Excrement in the late Middle Ages
Excrement in the late Middle Ages: sacred filth and Chaucer's fecopoetics
2008, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
Cover of: Excrement in the Late Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)
Excrement in the Late Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)
October 13, 2008, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer
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Table of Contents

Introduction : The medieval body : disciplining material and symbolic excrement
The rhizomatic body
Moral filth and the sinning body : hell purgatory, and 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
Rhizomatic pilgrimage 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.

Edition Notes

This book examines medieval discourse on excrement.

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
New York
Series
New Middle Ages

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
821/.1
Library of Congress
PR1933.F43 M67 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18843472M
Internet Archive
excrementlatemid00morr
ISBN 10
1403984883
LCCN
2008003859
Library Thing
8277883
Goodreads
3138423

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