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.
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