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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349540161
• ISBN13: 9781349540167
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"