Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-158) and index.
Contents
Chapter CONSUMING PASSIONS -- chapter 1 The Man-Eating Body -- chapter 2 Corpus Christi: The Eucharist and Late Medieval Cultural Identity -- chapter 3 Mass Hysteria: Heresy, Witchcraft, and Host Desecration -- chapter 4 The Maternal Monstrous: Cannibalism at the Siege of Jerusalem -- chapter 5 Teratographies: Writing the American Colonial Monster.
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.
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