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On Farting Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages

The New Middle Ages
Valerie Allen
Palgrave Macmillan, December 2006
ISBN: 978-0-312-23493-5, ISBN10: 0-312-23493-7,
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 256 pages,

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force of scholarship and cultural history. The tone is perfectly judged. Allen
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challenge to the primarily visual emphasis of contemporary culture. Allen s book
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Midden Age * Part I: Beginning * Old Farts *
For the Edification of Copious Shitters and Costive Maidens Whose Hours At Siege
Should Be Profitably Employed * “Sometimes I sits and thinks; Sometimes I just
sits” * Hard Lessons * Logic 101* The Music Album Musical Bum * Butts and
Instruments: Nature vs. Art * The Musical Universe * Canticus Canticorum [Song
of Songs] * Broken Air * The Nose Knows * I/Thou13. One Flesh * Pneuma * A Short
Excursus on Wind * Till Death Us Do Part * Inspiration * “Oh dear, what can the
matter be? Three old ladies got stuck in the lavatory…” * “There was an old lady
who swallowed a fly…” * Farting at the Devil * Filthy Lucre22. Shitting Ducats *
Duck-Rabbit, Face-Bottom * Part II: In Between * In the Beginning was the Word *
The Silver-Tongued Butt * The Grammar of Farts * Potent Words * Legitimate
Etymology * Rebuilding Babel * Bastard Laughter * Better out Than In * Spend a
Penny, Save a Penny * Flatus of the Voice * Conclusion: die afterwissenschaft
[end-knowledge, pseudo-science, butthole-scholarship] * The Mystery of Roland *
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