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Medieval Obscenities (Paperback)
Nicola F. McDonald, Nicola McDonald; Contributions by Alastair J. Alastair J. Minnis, Carolyne Larrington, Danuta Shanzer, …
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R785
Discovery Miles 7 850
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Obscenity is central to an understanding of medieval culture, and
it is here examined in a number of different media. Obscenity is,
if nothing else, controversial. Its definition, consumption and
regulation fire debate about the very meaning of art and culture,
law, politics and ideology. And it is often, erroneously, assumed
to be synonymous with modernity. Medieval Obscenities examines the
complex and contentious role of the obscene - what is offensive,
indecent or morally repugnant - in medieval culture from late
antiquity through to the end of the Middle Ages in western Europe.
Its approach is multidisciplinary, its methodologies divergent and
it seeks to formulate questions and stimulate debate. The essays
examine topics as diverse as Norse defecation taboos, the
Anglo-Saxon sexual idiom, sheela-na-gigs, impotence in the church
courts, bare ecclesiastical bottoms, rude sounds and dirty words,
as well as the modern reception and representation of the medieval
obscene. They demonstrate not only the vitality of medieval
obscenity, but its centrality to our understanding of the Middle
Ages and ourselves. Contributors: MICHAEL CAMILLE, GLENN DAVIS,
EMMA DILLON, SIMON GAUNT, JEREMY GOLDBERG, EAMONN KELLY, CAROLYNE
LARRINGTON, NICOLAMCDONALD, ALASTAIR MINNIS, DANUTA SHANZER
A wide variety of texts (from chronicles to Chaucer) studied for
evidence of medieval attitudes towards the processes of change as
they affected individuals at all points of their lives. Rites of
passage is a term and concept more used than considered. Here, for
the first time, its implications are applied and tested in the
field of medieval studies: medievalists from a range of disciplines
consider the varioustheoretical models - folklorist,
anthropological, psychoanalytical - that can be used to analyse
cultures of transition in the history and literature of
fourteenth-century Europe. Ranging over a wide variety of texts,
from chronicles to romances, from priests' manuals to courtesy
books, from state records to the writings of Chaucer, Gower and
Froissart, the contributors identify and analyse medieval attitudes
to the process of change in lifecycle, status,gender and power. A
substantive introduction by Miri Rubin draws together the ideas and
materials discussed in the book to illustrate the relevance and
importance of anthropology to the study of medieval culture.
Contributors: JOEL BURDEN, PATRICIA CULLUM, ISABEL DAVIS, JANE
GILBERT, SARAH KAY, MARK ORMROD, HELEN PHILLIPS, MIRI RUBIN, SHARON
WELLS. NICOLA F. McDONALD is Lecturer in Medieval Literature, the
late W.M ORMROD was Professor of Medieval History, University of
York.
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