Worldcat, the web of books

[mmcnealy]

While searching Worldcat for a book with images of French peasents from the late 1500's, I ran across these interesting finds which aren't at all relevant to the search, but are really cool.

Look, period fart jokes!
Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology by by Jeff Persels (Editor), Russell Ganim (Editor) 

Saints, Sinners, and Sisters: Gender and Northern Art in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Jane L. Carroll (Editor), Alison G. Stewart (Editor)

An interesting article on JSTOR, which I don't have access to anymore (waaah!)
Paper Festivals and Popular Entertainment the Kermis Woodcuts of Sebald Beham in Reformation Nuremberg by Alison Stewart  

Comments

[systemgoddess.livejournal.com]

I have access to JSTOR but the college doesn't subscribe to that particular journal :-(

[ursula]

E-mail me (uaw at u dot washington dot edu) and I can grab the JSTOR article for you.

[katanubis.livejournal.com]

Cool stuff.

The people in medieval Europe were anything but stuffy about things like fart jokes, poop jokes, sex jokes, nose picking jokes, you name it. They not only wrote about them, but they painted, carved, embroidered etc all sorts of them. Of course, our Victorian ancestors made durn sure that we don't have many of them anymore, but they were a pretty bawdy group back then. I have a book that is just about the scatology and sex stuff in Shakespeare's works. It's a hoot!

That Saints, Sinners, etc book looks especially interesting.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

There's a set of playing cards in the German Single-leaf woodcuts 1500-1550 where one of the suits is all about poop. Its funny but odd, an 8 year old boy would find it hilarious.

[jillwheezul.livejournal.com]

It is a cool article from Jstor. There is a new search tool on JSTOR called Sandbox, and it pulls thumbnail images from the keywords. I am such a nerd. I have been putting in 16th century, then 1500, 1501, 1502, 1503 etc and looking at every image. I have found some cool things.

I'd also be happy to send you the article...