Excrement in the late Middle Ages : sacred filth and Chaucer's fecopoetics / Susan Signe Morrison.
- Morrison, Susan Signe, 1959-
- Date:
- [2008], ©2008
- Books
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2008], ©2008.
Physical description
xiii, 271 pages ; 22 cm.
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Notes
This book examines medieval discourse on excrement.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-250) and index.
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.
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Location Status History of MedicineJH.AA3Open shelves
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- 1403984883
- 9781403984883