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Author:   Nicola F McDonald ,  Nicola McDonald ,  Professor Alastair J. Minnis (Customer) ,  Carolyne Larrington
Publisher:   York Medieval Press
Imprint:   York Medieval Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9781903153185

ISBN 10:   1903153182
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   20 April 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction - Nicola F McDonald Dr Witowski's Anus: French Doctors, German Homosexuals and the Obscene in Medieval Church Art - Michael Camille The Exeter Book Riddles and the Place of Sexual Idiom in Old English Literature - Glenn Davis Representing Obscene Sound - Emma Dillon Obscene Hermeneutics in Troubadour Lyric - Simon Gaunt John Skathelok's Dick: Voyerism and `Pornography' in Late Medieval England - P J P Goldberg Irish Sheela-na-gigs and Related Figures with Reference to the Collections of the National Museum of Ireland - Eamonn Kelly Diet, Defecation and the Devil: Disgust and the Pagan Past - Carolyne Larrington From Coilles to Bel Chose: Discourses of Obscenity in Jean de Meun and Chaucer - Alastair J Minnis Latin literature, Christianity and Obscenity in the later Roman West - Danuta Shanzer

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Especially welcome for its range of theoretical perspectives on what remains a tricky subject. * MEDIUM AEVUM * Very fine case studies...we get smart new perspectives on medieval art, architecture, literature, language and law, as well as on sex, bodily functions and the establishment and subversion of norms. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT * Demonstrate[s] beyond doubt that the middle ages had a sophisticated awareness of the obscene. * HISTORY *

Especially welcome for its range of theoretical perspectives on what remains a tricky subject. MEDIUM AEVUM Very fine case studies...we get smart new perspectives on medieval art, architecture, literature, language and law, as well as on sex, bodily functions and the establishment and subversion of norms. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTDemonstrate(s) beyond doubt that the middle ages had a sophisticated awareness of the obscene. HISTORY

Especially welcome for its range of theoretical perspectives on what remains a tricky subject. MEDIUM AEVUM Very fine case studies...we get smart new perspectives on medieval art, architecture, literature, language and law, as well as on sex, bodily functions and the establishment and subversionterature, language and law, as well as on sex, bodily functions and the establishment and subversion of norms. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTDe

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CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Professor of Medieval European Literature at Oxford University and Official Fellow in Medieval English Literature at St John's College, Oxford.

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