1st Edition
Consuming Passions The Uses of Cannibalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
By Merrall L. Price
Copyright 2003
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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Cannibalism is the breaking of the ultimate taboo. Yet during the later Middle Ages and early years of the Renaissance, mythological, historical, and contemporary accounts of cannibalism became particularly popular. Consuming Passions synthesizes and analyses the most interesting of those late medieval and early modern responses to Eucharistic teaching and debate that manifest themselves in the... Read more
Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations 1. The Man-Eating Body 2. Corpus Christi: The Eucharist and Late Medieval Cultural Identity 3. Mass Hysteria: Heresy, Witchcraft, and Host Desecration 4. The Maternal Monstrous: Cannibalism at the Siege of Jerusalem 5. Teratographies: Writing the American Colonial Monster Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Merrall L. Price
