Consuming Passions
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Blood Libel
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body politic theory
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cannibalism
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Christ Child
colonial monster discourse
Corpus Mysticum
Corpus Verum
desecration
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Eucharistic Miracles
Eucharistic Symbolism
Far
Filial Cannibalism
Fourth Lateran Council
heresy and witchcraft studies
host
Host Desecration
host desecration narratives
infanticidal
Infanticidal Cannibalism
Innocent III
Juan De Ampudia
late
Late Medieval
late medieval cannibalism in religious texts
Lateran IV
libel
Maria Lactans
medieval
medieval religious practices
Paschasius Radbertus
Pope Paul Iii
Ritual Murder Accusation
sacramental symbolism
Sodomitical Practices
Vice Versa
Violated
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415966993
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Jul 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. Consuming Passions 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. This trope appears in texts as various as visions of the underworld, accounts of sacramental miracles, sermons, legal proceedings, and popular geographies. This book foregrounds the vexed role of the body in both late medieval and early modern religiosity, and the ways in which the boundaries of the endangered body in these narratives also reflect the rigorously defended borders of the body politic.
