Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology

List of Figures
General Editors\' Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Scatology, the Last Taboo

1 The \'Honorable Art of Farting\' in Continental Renaissance
Literature
Barbara C. Bowen
2 \'The Wife Multiplies the Secret\' (AaTh 1381D): Some Fortunes of an Exemplary Tale 14
Geoffrey R. Hope
3 Doctor Rabelais and the Medicine of Scatology 24
David LaGuardia
4 \'The Mass and the Fart are Sisters\': Scatology and Calvinist
Rhetoric against the Mass, 1560-63 38
leff Persels
5 Community, Commodities and Commodes in the French Nouvelle 56
Emily E. Thompson
6 Pissing Glass and the Body Crass: Adaptations of the Scatological
in Theophile 66
Russell Ganim
7 Scatology as Political Protest: A \'Scandalous\' Medal of Louis XIV
leanne Morgan Zarucchi 85
8 Foolectomies, Fool Enemas, and the Renaissance Anatomy of
Folly 96
Glenn Ehrstine
9 Holy and Unholy Shit: The Pragmatic Context of Scatological
Curses in Early German Reformation Satire 109
losef Schmidt, with Mary Simon
FECAL MATTERS
10 Expelling from Top and Bottom: The Changing Role of
Scatology in Images of Peasant Festivals from Albrecht DUrer to
Pieter Bruegel
Alison G. Stewart
11 Tamburlaine\'s Urine
Joseph Tate
12 \'The Wronged Breeches\': Cavalier Scatology
Peter J. Smith

List of Works Cited or Consulted
Index 189