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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Martha Bayless |
ISBN: | 9780415897808 0415897807 |
OCLC Number: | 711041470 |
Description: | xxi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | The devil in the latrine -- Pollution and filth in the Middle Ages: material realities -- The symbolic order of the body -- The realm of corruption. |
Series Title: | Routledge studies in medieval literature and culture, 2. |
Responsibility: | Martha Bayless. |
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Abstract:
'Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture' analyzes the role of sin and its material counterpart, filth, in medieval thought. Taking in a range of theology, historical documents, and literature from Augustine to Chaucer, this study forms a substantial new contribution to the history of the body.

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