Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer's Fecopoetics

by Susan Signe Morrison

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403984883
• ISBN13: 9781403984883
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"