Obscenity: Social Control and Artistic

Creation in the European Middle Ages

Editor: Jan M. Ziolkowski

This volume contains nearly twenty essays on obscenity in

medieval culture. These essays represent the most wide-ranging
attempt ever to probe the natures, origins, and consequences of Pages: x, 360 pp.
obscenity in medieval literature, art, theater, and law. Although 36 illus.
a core is devoted to obscenity in medieval French literature Language:
(where the fabliaux have elicited more previous attempts to English
come to terms with obscenity than has any other type of Subjects:
medieval literature), other contributions to the volume explore Medieval
manifestations of obscenity in cultures and languages of History, History,
Scandinavia, Germany, Ireland, Wales, Byzantium, and even Intellectual
western Slavdom. The book is divided into six di ferent sections: History, History
Introducing Obscenity; The Rhetoric of Obscenity; Visualizing Publisher: Brill
Obscenity; Performing Obscenity; Legal Obscenity; and Courting
Obscenity in Old French. Series: 
Cultures, Beliefs
Readership and Traditions:
Medieval and
All those interested in medieval literatures and cultures, the Early Modern
classical traditions, rhetoric, theology, law, and women's Peoples, Volume:
studies. 4
Hardback
Publication date:
07 Apr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-
04-10928-5
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Biographical Note

Jan M. Ziolkowski, Ph.D. (1982) in Medieval Latin, University of

Cambridge, is Professor of Medieval Latin and Comparative
Literature at Harvard University. He has published extensively
on the Latin Middle Ages, from editions and translations to
books on intellectual history and literary history.

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