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

DOWNLOADExcrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer's Fecopoetics (The New Middle Ages) By Susan Signe MorrisonThis 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