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Excrement in the late Middle Ages : sacred filth and Chaucer's fecopoetics

Title
Excrement in the late Middle Ages : sacred filth and Chaucer's fecopoetics / Susan Signe Morrison.
Author
Morrison, Susan Signe, 1959-
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Description
xiii, 271 p.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
The new Middle Ages
Uniform Title
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subjects
Note
  • This book examines medieval discourse on excrement.
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
JFD 08-4169
ISBN
  • 1403984883
  • 9781403984883
LCCN
2008003859
OCLC
  • 191898113
  • vendorOCN191898113
Author
Morrison, Susan Signe, 1959-
Title
Excrement in the late Middle Ages : sacred filth and Chaucer's fecopoetics / Susan Signe Morrison.
Imprint
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Series
The new Middle Ages
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-250) and index.
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Publisher description
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