Fecal matters in early modern literature and art : studies in scatology / edited by Jeff Persels, Russell Ganim ; general editors, Martin Stannard and Greg Walker.

Aldershot : Ashgate, [2004], ©2004.

xxi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Scatology, the last taboo -- The "Honorable art of farting" in continental Renaissance literature / Barbara C. Bowen -- "The wife multiplies the secret" (AaTh 1381D): some fortunes of an exemplary tale / Geoffrey R. Hope -- Dr. Rabelais and the medicine of scatology / David LaGuardia -- "The mass and the fart are sisters": scatology and Calvinist rhetoric against the mass, 1560-1563 / Jeff Persels -- Community, commodities, and commodes in the French nouvelle / Emily E. Thompson -- Pissing glass and the body crass: adaptations of the scatological in Théophile / Russell Ganim -- Scatology as political protest: a "Scandalous" medal of Louis XIV / Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi -- Foolectomies, fool enemas, and the Renaissance Anatomy of folly / Glenn Ehrstine -- Holy and unholy shit: the pragmatic context of scatological curses in early German Reformation satire / Josef Schmidt, with Mary Simon -- Expelling from top and bottom: the changing role of scatology in images of peasant festivals from Albrecht Dürer to Pieter Bruegel / Alison G. Stewart -- Tamburlaine's Urine / Joseph Tate -- "The wronged breeches": cavalier scatology / Peter J. Smith.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-188) and index.