Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer's Fecopoetics
- Author / Editor
- Morrison, Susan Signe.
Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer's Fecopoetics
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 271 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Morrison constructs a cultural poetics of excrement to suggest that Chaucer's treatment of fecal matter, in both its literal and figurative senses, illustrates the ways that the Middle Ages viewed excrement. This cultural poetics enables the modern critic to better understand the Middle Ages, as well as the legacy that medieval attitudes toward fecal matter have left to modern culture. Morrison addresses much of CT (PrT, NPT, and PardT most extensively), focusing on fecal matter in an attempt to "correct the potential decorporealization of the medieval body."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Pardoner and His Tale