A couple of highly recommended volumes:
On Farting: Laughter and Language in the Middle Ages, which features ‘Roland the Farter’, who performed an annual jump, whistle and fart before the king of England. Indeed the final two chapters are called ‘The Mystery of Roland’ and ‘Fartprints of Roland’.
Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics, in which we find a serious proposal for the discipline of ‘Waste Studies’.
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28 January, 2012 at 6:00 pm
I heartily second these recommendations, Comrade Roland! Although I read Excrement some years ago, it certainly left its mark on me. And in a spooky coincidence, possum, I was looking through On Farting just two days ago.
These are two fine contributions to anal history.
28 January, 2012 at 8:41 pm
Concerning the fine musical tradition of flatulists, only one now carries on this tradition – Mr Methane: http://www.mrmethane.com/
29 January, 2012 at 6:15 am
The fart version of the Blue Danube is truly masterful. This is something I think I could really get into. qurgh vIparHa’. Were there instructions in On Farting, Mr Wrong?
29 January, 2012 at 11:51 am
He’s ‘open’ for conference gigs, I believe.