Excrement in the Late Middle Ages : Sacred Filth and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics
by
S. Morrison
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
The New Middle Ages
ISBN-10
1403984883
ISBN-13
9781403984883
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 14th, 2008
Print length
271 Pages
Weight
416 grams
Dimensions
21.80 x 16.00 x 2.50 cms
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This interdisciplinary book intergrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, concluding that excrement is a moral and ethical category deserving scrutiny.
This interdisciplinary book integrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, with special focus on fecopoetics and Chaucer''s literary agenda. Filth in all its manifestations-material (including privies, dung on fields, and as alchemical ingredient), symbolic (sin, misogynist slander, and theological wrestling with the problem of filth in sacred contexts) and linguistic (a semantic range including dirt and dung)-helps us to see how excrement is vital to understanding the Middle Ages. Applying fecal theories to late medieval culture, Morrison concludes by proposing Waste Studies as a new field of ethical and moral criticism for literary scholars.
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