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|title=On Farting: Bodily Wind in the Middle Ages

|author=Valerie Allen

|buy=No

|borrow=Maybe

|pages=239

|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan

|isbn=978-0312234935

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From its title, I assumed this book was one of those disposable humorous compendia ripe for the Christmas market and destined, given its subject matter, for toilet reading. But no, it is a piece of serious scholarship, one of an extensive series called ''The New Middle Ages''.

Some of the scholarly purpose and vocabulary of this book would, I imagine, lose all but the most dedicated student. For both the more erudite Viz reader and the scatalogically-inclined scholar though, the book surprises and entertains enough to earn it a place outside the university library.

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