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