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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 413–442.
Published: 01 September 2008
... notions of qi? To understand this strange forgetfulness about the Western past, we must linger on a defining feature of traditional humoralism, often slighted in modern synopses: the haunting fear of excrement. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 395–420.
Published: 01 May 2012
... with senseless speech These empty
sounds mix with mouse droppings and a woman’s excrement, a combina-
tion in which bodily waste comes to constitute a kind of analogue for the
matter of language, stripped of meaning. When medical language loses its
sense, the implicit analogy runs, it becomes empty sound...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 403–412.
Published: 01 September 2008
... tradition (Wear). The essays by
Kuriyama and Wear are, in fact, the most overtly revisionist attempts to
reconfigure what has come to be regarded as received wisdom in the annals
of medical history.
The startling premise of Shigehisa Kuriyama’s “The Forgotten Fear
of Excrement” is that we...
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The Compounded Body: Bodily Knowledge Production in the Works of Andreas Vesalius and Edmund Spenser
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2018) 48 (1): 153–182.
Published: 01 January 2018
... with a slimy
wall (21.5) permeable to the assailing affections and in the description of
excretion, Spenser’s allegory attempts to constitute borders or surfaces to
slow down if not prevent diffusion of undesired emotions and social influ-
ences. Julia Kristeva examines excremental passages as models...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 71–98.
Published: 01 January 2013
... itself, to death. And of course the image
of the fleece in the last line quoted is used again to describe Portia’s hair as
the golden fleece. The echoes of this sonnet in The Merchant of Venice thus
reinforce the specter of the deadly mother. Both demand that the excrement
of the dead should...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (3): 629–651.
Published: 01 September 2016
... well be a reference to the mouth and stomach,
not the bowel, or simply the body as a receptive enclosure, and if the soule
is more sustenance than sludge, the excremental interpretation now turns
on defining “his nescessery” as excretion (“And whan it is tyme of his [the
purse’s] nescessery...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 559–587.
Published: 01 September 2008
... mounting and fornicating
with sows, licking their excrement, sucking their teats. Moreover, this bestial
symbolism carried over into medieval juridical practice. Jews were some-
times hanged feet-up in the mode of sows who had eaten children; and in
fourteenth-century Germany, Jews had to appear...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 375–406.
Published: 01 May 2009
...
cockfight suggests a system that draws and taxes, a system that demands
human excrement and spit in return for whatever good may come of the
blood shed by cocks. In direct contrast to Wilson’s and Geertz’s narratives,
Markham’s cockfighting story (almost) elides recreation and delight, focus-
ing...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 523–557.
Published: 01 September 2008
... to promote good health. “Collect . . . a great abundance of vola-
tile salt from insects, such as earthworms, millipedes, ants . . . toads, frogs
and also the excrements thereof,” Paolo Boccone wrote in the late seven
teenth century. “The strength and efficacy of the effluvia of these insects...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 119–141.
Published: 01 January 2009
...- and underdetermination
of the terms that measure the Englishman’s difference from, and similar-
ity to, the Spaniard. The ghosts awakened by staged words materialize on
Dekker’s stage, precisely, as matter: flesh, products, excrement, fabric, com-
modities, cultural practices. And as matter, as consumable...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 393–416.
Published: 01 May 2011
... characters. Foly’s violently ill wife is the final
female example in the drama, with her body’s shooting farts, belches, vomit,
and excrement serving as a dramatic portrait of the state of the women in the
kingdom and, by extension, the state of the nation.
In Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 397–429.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of the domestic beasts, their smells and their excrement.” 9 Karl Steel writes of pigs roaming the streets, eating everything they can find including garbage, corpses that they dig up, and even human children. 10 Analyzing the medieval trial and execution of homicidal pigs, he argues: Subjugating pigs...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 7–30.
Published: 01 January 2009
... is lost to the biological mother but is refound
by the ideal mother. The purity of the Virgin surpasses all impurities, espe-
cially that of the carnal, excremental Jew, but also that of the boy’s own car-
nal mother.38 In a related psychoanalytic analysis of Chaucer’s tale, Judith
Ferster calls...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 571–595.
Published: 01 September 2009
... thing save the excrements of Artes, whose thredd-bare knowl-
edge, beeing bought at the second hand, is spotted, blemished, and defaced, through
translaters rigorous rude dealing, shoulde preferre their fluttered sutes before other
mens glittering gorgious array.” Thomas Nashe...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 349–375.
Published: 01 May 2020
... appalling: kept in a jail without a proper roof, she had no access to clean water and often lay in her own excrement. One day, the Jütte / Survivors of Witch Trials 355 castellan came to her cell and threatened her in no uncertain terms: if she continued to refuse to sign, he would brick me in [vermauren...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (2): 247–273.
Published: 01 May 2013
... – 7. Hereafter, I cite D/EP/F29 as vol. 1, D/EP/
F30 as vol. 2, and so on, up to vol. 7, along with page numbers. The quotation is from
6:27. On the obstructed early modern body, see Shigehisa Kuriyama, “The Forgotten
Fear of Excrement,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 559–591.
Published: 01 September 2024
... excrements of beasts belonging to Travellers, for graine that perchaunce might come undigested from them.” People looked like “anatomies, with life, but scarce strength enough to remove themselves from under mens feet” (43–44). Mundy’s prose style, very unlike the cryptic notes in Finch, is deliberately...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 339–374.
Published: 01 May 2000
... Scene?
A Room with one side furnish’d, or a face,
Painted half-way, is but a faire disgrace.
This great voluminous Pamphlet may be said
To be like one that hath more haire than head;
More excrement than body. (DW 2:n.p.)
In opposition...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 331–373.
Published: 01 May 2009
...;
reviling the Christian whom they see pissing against a wall. . . . This they do to pre-
vent that any part of either excrement should touch their garments, esteeming it a pol-
lution, and hindering the acceptation of prayer.”
9 Juvenal, Satire 6.264, in The Sixteen Satires, 3rd ed., trans...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 507–560.
Published: 01 September 2001
...
zeal with Jewish parody. One would give much to have the text of Samp-
son’s “sermon.” Perhaps it engaged in the kind of wordplay used in the Niz-
zahon Vetus, where the name Maria is consistently spelled Haria, to evoke
the Aramaic word for excrement.152 One would also like to know the audi-
ence...
