Consuming Passions

The Uses of Cannibalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-96699-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval History and Culture

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 trope of cannibalism. This trope appears in texts as various as visions of the underworld, accounts of sacramental miracles, sermons, legal proceedings, and popular geographies. This book foregrounds the vexed role of the body in both late medieval and early modern religiosity, and the ways in which the boundaries of the endangered body in these narratives also reflect the rigorously defended borders of the body politic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Price, Merrall Llewelyn

Price, Merrall L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Merrall L. Price