Research Catalog

Title

Medieval obscenities / edited by Nicola McDonald.

Publication

Woodbridge : York Medieval ; Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McDonald, Nicola.
• University of York. Centre for Medieval Studies.

Description

viii, 210 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Obscenity (Law)
• Obscene gestures > History > To 1500
• Obscene words > History > To 1500
• Civilization, Medieval

Note

• "York Medieval Press is published by the University of York's Centre for Medieval Studies in association with Boydell & Brewer" -- prelims.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Nicola McDonald -- Dr. Witkowski's anus: French doctors, German homosexuals and the obscene in Medieval church art / Michael Camille -- The Exeter book riddles and the place of sexual idiom in Old English literature / Glenn Davis -- Representing obscene sound / Emma Dillon -- Obscene hermeneutics in Troubadour lyric / Simon Gaunt -- John Shathelok's dick: voyeurism and 'pornography' in late Medieval England / Jeremy Goldberg -- Irish Sheela-na-gigs and related figures with reference to the collections of the National Museum of Ireland / Eamonn Kelly -- Diet, defecation and the devil: disgust and the pagan past / Carolyne Larrington -- From Coilles to Bel Chose: discourses of obscenity in Jean de Meun and Chaucer / Alastair Minnis -- Latin literature, Christianity and obscenity in the later Roman West / Danuta Shanzer.

Call Number

JFE 07-4052

ISBN

• 1903153182 (hbk.)
• 9781903153185 (hbk.)

OCLC

63137337

Title

Medieval obscenities / edited by Nicola McDonald.

Imprint

Woodbridge : York Medieval ; Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, 2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

McDonald, Nicola.

University of York. Centre for Medieval Studies.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-4052