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

by Susan Signe Morrison

Book Overview

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.

• 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"