Excrement in the late Middle Ages
Subtitle: sacred filth and Chaucer's fecopoetics
By: by Susan Signe Morrison.
Series: New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400; Feces in literature; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Feces -- Symbolic aspects; Symbolism in literature; Body, Human, in literature; Sanitation in literature; Refuse and refuse disposal in literature
Notes: This book examines medieval discourse on excrement.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The medieval body : disciplining material and symbolic excrement; title: The rhizomatic body; title: Moral filth and the sinning body : hell purgatory, and resurrection; title: Gendered filth; title: Chaucerian fecopoetics. Urban excrement in the Canterbury tales; title: Sacred filth : relics, ritual, and remembering in The prioress's tale; title: The excremental human god and redemptive filth : The pardoner's tale; title: Rhizomatic pilgrimage and alchemical poetry; title: Chaucerian fecology and wasteways : The nun's priest's tale; title: Looking behind, looking ahead. Looking behind; title: Waste studies : a brief introduction; title: Bottoms up! A manifesto for waste studies.