Excrement in the Late Middle Ages Sacred

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 and dung) -helps us to see how excrement is vital to understanding the Middle Ages. Applying fecal theories to late medieval culture, Morrison concludes by proposing Waste Studies as a new field of ethical and moral criticism for literary scholars.

Susan Signe Morrison is Professor of English, Texas State University-San Marcos. She is the author of Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England: Private Piety as Public Performance.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Medieval Body: Disciplining Material and Symbolic Excrement
The Rhizomatic Body	p. 15
Moral Filth and the Sinning Body: Hell, Purgatory, Resurrection	p. 25
Gendered Filth	p. 45
Chaucerian Fecopoetics
Urban Excrement in The Canterbury Tales	p. 57
Sacred Filth: Relics, Ritual, and Remembering in The Prioress's Tale	p. 73
The Excremental Human God and Redemptive Filth: The Pardoner's Tale	p. 89
The Rhizomatic Pilgrim Body and Alchemical Poetry	p. 103
Chaucerian Fecology and Wasteways: The Nun's Priest's Tale	p. 117
Looking Behind, Looking Ahead
Looking Behind	p. 129
Waste Studies: A Brief Introduction	p. 139
Bottoms Up! A Manifesto for Waste Studies	p. 153
Notes	p. 159
Bibliography	p. 225
Index	p. 251
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Excrement in the Late Middle Ages Sacred Filth and Chaucer's Fecopoetics

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