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Tables of Contents for The Secret Middle Ages
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
vi
Foreword
xiv
Marina Warner
Preface
xvii
Acknowledgements
xxii
Conventions and Abbreviations
xxv
Love, Death and Biscuits
1
12
Magical Metal, Silly Saints and Risible Relics: the Art and Artefacts of Popular Religion
13
21
Licked into Shape: Animal Symbolism
34
28
Why Englishmen Have Tails: Race, Nationality and Monstrosity
62
14
Signs of Infamy: the Iconography of Humiliation and Insult
76
24
The Fool and the Attributes of Folly
100
21
Shoeing the Goose: Proverbs and Proverbial Follies
121
23
Nonsense, Pure and Applied
144
27
Narratives -- Heroic and Not So Heroic
171
25
Hearts and Flowers and Parrots: the Iconography of Love
196
30
Who Wears the Trousers: Gender Relations
226
22
Wicked Willies with Wings: Sex and Sexuality
248
26
Tailpiece: the Uses of Scatology
274
21
Conclusion
295
5
Notes and References
300
66
Index
366