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Article: Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature.(On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages)(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2008
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Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature. By HEATHER BLURTON. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. 202 pp. 36.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4039-7443-3
On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages. By VALERIE ALLEN. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. xiv+239 pp. 22.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-312-23493-5.
These volumes, part of the New Middle Ages series, greet the repellent with a cheer. The former, with five chapters, is clearly organized; the latter, a sub-Freudian phantasmagoria, rather less so. Let us start with the first.
Heather Blurton begins with the Old English poem Andreas, where she associates the ...