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

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

Part of the Studies in Medieval History and Culture: Outstanding Dissertations series

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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. ConsumingPassions 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.

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