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On Farting: Bodily Wind in the Middle Ages by Valerie Allen (view source)
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|title=On Farting: Bodily Wind in the Middle Ages
|author=Valerie Allen
|date=June 2007
|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''.