Valerie Allen - On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)

BONNIE WHEELER, Series Editor

The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating womens history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections.

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Women in the Medieval Islamic World:Power, Patronage, and Piety

edited by Gavin R. G. Hambly

The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccios Poetaphysics

by Gregory B. Stone

Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition

edited by Sherry J. Mou

The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France

by Constant J. Mews

Understanding Scholastic Thought with Foucault

by Philipp W. Rosemann

For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh

by Frances A. Underhill

Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages

edited by Cindy L. Carlson and

Angela Jane Weisl

Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England

by Mary Dockray-Miller

Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman

edited by Bonnie Wheeler

The Postcolonial Middle Ages

edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Chaucers Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse

by Robert S. Sturges

Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers

edited by Barbara Stevenson an d Cynthia Ho

Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages

by Laurel Amtower

Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture

edited by Stewart Gordon

Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose

Same Sex Love and Desire among Women in the Middle Ages

edited by Francesca Canad Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn

Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages: Ocular Desires

by Suzannah Biernoff

Listen, Daughter: The Speculum Virginum and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages

edited by Constant J. Mews

Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology

by Richard A. Lee, Jr.

Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance

edited by Thelma S. Fenster and Clare A. Lees

Malorys Morte DArthur: Remaking Arthurian Tradition

by Catherine Batt

The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religious Literature

edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Duncan Robertson, and Nancy Warren

Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 13501500

by Kathleen Kamerick

Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England

by Elizabeth Scala

Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul

by Bonnie Effros

Representations of Early Byzantine Empresses: Image and Empire

by Anne McClanan

Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images

edited by Dsire G. Koslin and Janet Snyder

Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady

edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons

Isabel La Catlica, Queen of Castile: Critical Essays

edited by David A. Boruchoff

Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century

by Richard E. Zeikowitz

Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage, and Politics in England 12251350

by Linda E. Mitchell

Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc

by Maud Burnett McInerney

The Persistence of Medievalism: Narrative Adventures in Contemporary Culture

by Angela Jane Weisl

Capetian Women

edited by Kathleen D. Nolan

Joan of Arc and Spirituality

edited by Ann W. Astell and Bonnie Wheeler

The Texture of Society: Medieval Women in the Southern Low Countries

edited by Ellen E. Kittell and Mary A. Suydam

Charlemagnes Mustache: And Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age

by Paul Edward Dutton

Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image

edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills

Queering Medieval Genres

by Tison Pugh

Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism

by L. Michael Harrington

The Middle Ages at Work

edited by Kellie Robertson and Michael Uebel

Chaucers Jobs

by David R. Carlson

Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity

by John M. Ganim

Queer Love in the Middle Ages

by Anna Klosowska

Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender, and the Medieval Iberian Lyric

by Denise K. Filios

Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England

by David Gary Shaw

Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages

edited by Kathryn Starkey and Horst Wenzel

Medieval Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, Volumes 1 and 2

edited by Stephanie Hayes-Healy

False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Middle English Literature

by Elizabeth Allen

Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages

by Michael Uebel

Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: New Essays

edited by Lawrence Besserman

Tolkiens Modern Middle Ages

edited by Jane Chance and Alfred

K. Siewers

Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England

by Frank Grady

Byzantine Dress: Representations of Secular Dress in Eighth-to-Twelfth Century Painting

by Jennifer L. Ball

The Laborers Two Bodies: Labor and the Work of the Text in Medieval Britain, 13501500

by Kellie Robertson

The Dogaressa of Venice, 12501500: Wife and Icon

by Holly S. Hurlburt

Logic, Theology, and Poetry in Boethius, Abelard, and Alan of Lille: Words in the Absence of Things

by Eileen C. Sweeney

The Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement

by Patricia Ranft

On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 11001500

by Paula M. Rieder

Writers of the Reign of Henry II: Twelve Essays

edited by Ruth Kennedy and Simon

Meecham-Jones

Lonesome Words: The Vocal Poetics of the Old English Lament and the African-American Blues Song

by M.G. McGeachy

Performing Piety: Musical Culture in Medieval English Nunneries

by Anne Bagnell Yardley

The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer

by Robert R. Edwards

Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk

edited by Bonnie Wheeler

Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings

edited by E. Jane Burns

Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France?: The Case for St. Florent of Saumur

by George Beech

Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages

by Erin L. Jordan

Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity, in Medieval Britain: On Difficult Middles