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Author Price, Merrall L

Title Consuming Passions : the Uses of Cannibalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern
Published London : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (178 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Series Editor Foreword; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; CONSUMING PASSIONS; Chapter One The Man-Eating Body; Chapter Two Corpus Christi: The Eucharist and Late Medieval Cultural Identity; Chapter Three Mass Hysteria: Heresy, Witchcraft, and Host Desecration; Chapter Four The Maternal Monstrous: Cannibalism at the Siege of Jerusalem; Chapter Five Teratographies: Writing the American Colonial Monster; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary During late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, mythological, historical and contemporary accounts of cannibalism became particularly popular. Consuming Passions synthesizes and analyses those responses to Eucharistic teachings
Notes Print version record
Subject Lord's Supper -- Catholic Church -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Cannibalism -- History -- To 1500
Lord's Supper -- Catholic Church -- History -- 16th century
Cannibalism -- History -- 16th century
Cannibalism
Lord's Supper -- Catholic Church
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203493939
0203493931