Excrement in the Late Middle Ages

1. Introduction
Susan Signe Morrison

Part I. The Medieval Body: Disciplining Material and Symbolic Excrement

2. The Rhizomatic Body
Susan Signe Morrison

3. Moral Filth and the Sinning Body: Hell, Purgatory, Resurrection
Susan Signe Morrison

4. Gendered Filth
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Part II. Chaucerian Fecopoetics

5. Urban Excrement in The Canterbury Tales

Susan Signe Morrison

6. Sacred Filth: Relics, Ritual, and Remembering in The Prioress’s Tale

Susan Signe Morrison

7. The Excremental Human God and Redemptive Filth: The Pardoner’s Tale

Susan Signe Morrison

8. The Rhizomatic Pilgrim Body and Alchemical Poetry
Susan Signe Morrison

9. Chaucerian Fecology and Wasteways: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

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Part III. Looking Behind, Looking Ahead

10. Looking Behind
Susan Signe Morrison

11. Waste Studies: A Brief Introduction
Susan Signe Morrison

12. Bottoms Up! A Manifesto For Waste Studies
Susan Signe Morrison

Avainsanat: History, History of Medieval Europe, Medieval Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, Classical and Antique Literature, World History, Global and Transnational History, Poetry and Poetics