Der Furz im England des 17. Jahrhunderts

In this contribution the author explores a huge range of situations in which seventeenthcentury people farted, talked about farting and conceived of farting as social or anti-social behaviour. Based on a wide variety of evidence, the contribution renders insights into the making as well as into the porosity of “norms” in early modern England. By exploring the situations in which people, referring to farts, argued about what struck them as irregular, and even unacceptable the contribution also illuminates some surprising similarities with as we as differences between early modern perceptions and our own

Sociology · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies · History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity