Consuming Passions: The Uses of Cannibalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780415966993 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 178 str.

Merrall Llewelyn Price

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Merrall L. Price