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Author Price, Merrall Llewelyn, 1965-

Title Consuming passions : the uses of cannibalism in late medieval and early modern Europe / Merrall Llewelyn Price.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 164 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Studies in medieval history and culture ; v. 20
Studies in medieval history and culture ; v. 20.
Bibliography 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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Subject Lord's Supper -- Catholic Church -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Cannibalism -- History -- To 1500.
Cannibalism.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Lord's Supper -- Catholic Church -- History -- 16th century.
Lord's Supper -- Catholic Church.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Cannibalism -- History -- 16th century.
Chronological Term To 1599
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Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Price, Merrall Llewelyn, 1965- Consuming passions. New York : Routledge, 2003 (DLC) 2003006144
ISBN 0203493931 (electronic book)
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9780415966993
041596699X
9786610059638
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9781135886851 (e-book ; PDF)
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9781135886806 (e-book ; Mobi)
1135886806
9781135886844 (e-book ; ePub)
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9781138011632 (paperback)
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041596699X (Cloth)
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