Excrement in the late Middle Ages : sacred filth and Chaucer's fecopoetics
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Excrement in the late Middle Ages : sacred filth and Chaucer's fecopoetics
（The new Middle Ages）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2008
Available at 2 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [225]-250
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
The Medieval Body: Disciplining Material and Symbolic Excrement The Rhizomatic Body Moral Filth and The Sinning Body: Hell, Purgatory, and 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 Rhizomatic Pilgrimage and Alchemical Poetry Chaucerian Fecology and Wasteways: The Nun's Priest's Tale Looking Behind, Looking Ahead Waste Studies: A Brief Introduction Bottoms Up! A Manifesto for Waste Studies
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