The Cultural Poetics of Excrement in the Late Middle Ages
Date
2006-06
Authors
Morrison, Susan S.
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Abstract
This project is a book-length interdisciplinary study of excrement in the late Middle Ages, focusing on historical, literary, and art historical texts, which address in some way the material and symbolic element of excrement. I also include a discussion of waste theory, a burgeoning field of studies. The REP allowed me to spend two months researching and writing in London, England. I visited the British Library as well as the slide library and Duke Humprey Library in Oxford where I was able to access medieval manuscripts for my project. The information I gained contributed enormously to my book.
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Research Enhancement Program Final Report
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excrement, Middle Ages, waste theory, symbolic elements
Citation
Morrison, S. S. (2006). <i>The cultural poetics of excrement in the Late Middle Ages</i>. Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.