Talking Turpiloquium : Gendering the Problem of “Spekyng Rybawdy“ in Mirk's Festial and Idley's Instructions

Author： Harris Carissa  

Publisher： Springer Publishing Company

ISSN： 0028-2677

Source： Neophilologus, Vol.95, Iss.3, 2011-07, pp. : 491-505

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Abstract

This article explores the gendered models of turpiloquium-illicit sexual language or “spekyng rybawdy“-in two late Middle English didactic texts, John Mirk's Festial and Peter Idley's Instructions to His Son. Whereas the most popular pastoral model of turpiloquium is between a man and a woman and leads to heterosexual intercourse, Mirk and Idley examine the vice as an exclusively intra-gender phenomenon, fully illuminating the unique problems and unexpected possibilities accorded to turpiloquium in late medieval England.

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