Medieval man-eaters : cannibalism and community in middle English literature
Author: Alan S. Ambrisco
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13:
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Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature
Author: H. Blurton
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-09-23
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1137115793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reads the surprisingly widespread representations of cannibals and cannibalism in medieval English literature as political metaphors that were central to England's on-going process of articulating cultural and national identity.
Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature
Author: Heather Blurton
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007-05-15
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781403974433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Beowulf through the literature of the crusades and beyond, cannibals haunt the texts of medieval England. Cannibal Narratives attempts to explain their presence. It explores the relationship between the literary trope of cannibalism and the emergence of national identity in medieval England. If England suffered three centuries of invasion - beginning with the Vikings and continuing through Danish and Norman conquests of the island - it also developed a unique and uniquely literary response to these circumstances. This book reads the representations cannibalism so common in English medieval literature through cannibalism's metaphoric associations with incorporation, consumption, and violent disruption of the boundaries between self and other. The result uncovers the ways in which these representations articulate a discourse of cannibalism as a privileged mode for thinking about English cultural, and ultimately national, identity in the face of the social crisis.
Chaucers Squires Tale, Franklins Tale, and Physicians Tale
Author: Kenneth Bleeth
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2018-11-19
Total Pages: 597
ISBN-13: 1442667559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe latest volume in the Chaucer Bibliographies series, meticulously assembled by Kenneth Bleeth, is the most comprehensive record of scholarship on Chaucer's Squire's Tale, Franklin's Tale, and Physician's Tale.
Consuming Passions
Author: Merrall L. Price
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1135886849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCannibalism 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.
The Man-Eating Myth
Author: William Arens
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1980-09-25
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 0190281200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating and well-researched look into what we really know about cannibalism.
Annotated Chaucer bibliography
Author: Mark Allen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2015-11-01
Total Pages: 886
ISBN-13: 1784996459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires
Author: Richard Sugg
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2012-04-27
Total Pages: 682
ISBN-13: 113657736X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, when kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribed, swallowed or wore human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin against epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression. One thing we are rarely taught at school is this: James I refused corpse medicine; Charles II made his own corpse medicine; and Charles I was made into corpse medicine. Ranging from the execution scaffolds of Germany and Scandinavia, through the courts and laboratories of Italy, France and Britain, to the battlefields of Holland and Ireland, and on to the tribal man-eating of the Americas, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires argues that the real cannibals were in fact the Europeans. Medicinal cannibalism utilised the formidable weight of European science, publishing, trade networks and educated theory. For many, it was also an emphatically Christian phenomenon. And, whilst corpse medicine has sometimes been presented as a medieval therapy, it was at its height during the social and scientific revolutions of early-modern Britain. It survived well into the eighteenth century, and amongst the poor it lingered stubbornly on into the time of Queen Victoria. This innovative book brings to life a little known and often disturbing part of human history.
Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Author: L. Noble
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-04-11
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0230118615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture , which explores the connections between early modern literary representations of the eaten body and the medical consumption of corpses.
The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, 4 Volume Set
Author: Sian Echard
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-08-07
Total Pages: 2102
ISBN-13: 1118396987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain vereint erstmals wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse zu Multilingualität und Interkulturalität im mittelalterlichen Britannien und bietet mehr als 600 fundierte Einträge zu Schlüsselpersonen, Zusammenhängen und Einflüssen in der Literatur vom fünften bis sechzehnten Jahrhundert. - Einzigartiger multilingualer, interkultureller Ansatz und die neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse. Das gesamte Mittelalter und die Bandbreite literarischer Sprachen werden abgedeckt. - Über 600 fundierte, verständliche Einträge zu Schlüsselpersonen, Texten, kritischen Debatten, Methoden, kulturellen Zusammenhängen sowie verwandte Terminologie. - Repräsentiert die gesamte Literatur der Britischen Inseln, einschließlich Alt- und Mittelenglisch, das frühe Schottland, die Anglonormannen, Nordisch, Latein und Französisch in Britannien, die keltische Literatur in Wales, Irland, Schottland und Cornwall. - Beeindruckende chronologische Darstellung, von der Invasion der Sachsen bis zum 5. Jahrhundert und weiter bis zum Übergang zur frühen Moderne im 16. Jahrhundert. - Beleuchtet die Überbleibsel mittelalterlicher britischer Literatur, darunter auch Manuskripte und frühe Drucke, literarische Stätten und Zusammenhänge in puncto Herstellung, Leistung und Rezeption sowie erzählerische Transformation und intertextuelle Verbindungen in dieser Zeit.
