Flesh and Blood. Images and Practices of Cannibalism from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
VANDENBERG Vincent.

Flesh and Blood. Images and Practices of Cannibalism from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

PURennes
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N° d'inventaire 18259
Format 15.5 x 24
Détails 414 p., paperback.
Publication Rennes, 2014
Etat Nine
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Chapter 1 Cannibalism: Definition and State of Knowledge . . . . . . . . . 17 Defining the Unspeakable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Fragments of Typology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The Anthropology of Cannibalism: A Clash of Methods . . . . . . 24 Is an Archaeology of Cannibalism Possible? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Some Historiographical and Bibliographical Observations . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Cannibalism and Scientific Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Chapter 2 Ancient and Medieval Cannibalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Eucharist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Accusations of Cannibalism Made Against Christians .. . . . . . . . 79 Accusations of Cannibalism Made Against Jews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Stories of Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Penitential Literature and Illicit Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Witchcraft and Cannibalism . ... 120 Cannibalism and Collective Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 On the Difficulty of Being Eaten: Cannibalism and the Resurrection of Bodies . . . . . . . . . 149 Ancient and Medieval Cannibalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Chapter 3 The Price of Survival: Hunger and Cannibalism, Between Antiquity and the Middle Ages . . . . . 163 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Hunger and the Hungry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Ancient Cannibalism: Inhumanity Condemned . . . .. . . . . . . 174 Christianized Survival Cannibalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Flavius Josephus and the Archetype of the Cannibalistic Mother . . . . . . . . . . 197 The Savior's Revenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Iconography of the Cannibalistic Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 The Price of Survival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Chapter 4 Constructions and reconstructions of the discourse on survival cannibalism in the Middle Ages . . . . . . . 223 Cannibalism and the Apocalypse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Rome under siege (408-410): rewritings of famines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Fames facta est ut homo hominem comederet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Cannibalism in a vacuum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Raoul Glaber, the champion of cannibalistic horror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Rumors and the spread of stories of cannibalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 A merciless punishment: God, sin, hunger and cannibalism . . . . . . . 262 The repentant cannibal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 The Crusades and the man-eating Christians . .. . . . . . . . 283 The Middle Ages and cannibalism for survival . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Chapter 5 The Sources of Western Ethnography of Man-Eaters . . . . . . . 299 Homer and Ulysses . . . . . . . . 303 The Cyclops Polyphemus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 The Laestrygonians . . . . . . . . . . 306 Revenge and Cannibalism in the Iliad . . . . . . . . . 309 Fortune and Misfortune of the Cyclops . . . . . . . . . . 312 The Earliest Iconography of Man-Eating Polyphemus . . . . . . . . . 319 The World of Herodotus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Blood-Drinking Greeks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 India and its Man-Eaters . . . . . . . . . 324 The Scythians . . . . . . . . . 328 Massagetae and Issedoni . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Africa and the Disaster of Cambyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 Rome and the Man-Eaters at the Beginning of the Empire . . . . . . . . 345 Consolidation of the figure of the cannibal of the borders and barbarian threats during Late Antiquity . . . . . . . . . 351 Human flesh eaters and anthropophagous monsters in the Western imagination of the early Middle Ages .. .. . . . 357 New man-eaters in an ancient setting: the Mongols . . . . . 362 Man-eaters on medieval mappae mundi: Hereford and Ebstorf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 Jean de Mandeville and the new ethnography of man-eaters . . . . . . . . . . 377 The man-eaters of Odoric and Mandeville in images . . . . . . . . 387 Man-eaters without a story(ies)? . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Chapter 1 Cannibalism: Definition and State of Knowledge . . . . . . . . . 17 Defining the Unspeakable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Fragments of Typology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The Anthropology of Cannibalism: A Clash of Methods . . . . . . 24 Is an Archaeology of Cannibalism Possible? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Some Historiographical and Bibliographical Observations . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Cannibalism and Scientific Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Chapter 2 Ancient and Medieval Cannibalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Eucharist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Accusations of Cannibalism Made Against Christians .. . . . . . . . 79 Accusations of Cannibalism Made Against Jews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Stories of Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Penitential Literature and Illicit Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Witchcraft and Cannibalism . ... 120 Cannibalism and Collective Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 On the Difficulty of Being Eaten: Cannibalism and the Resurrection of Bodies . . . . . . . . . 149 Ancient and Medieval Cannibalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Chapter 3 The Price of Survival: Hunger and Cannibalism, Between Antiquity and the Middle Ages . . . . . 163 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Hunger and the Hungry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Ancient Cannibalism: Inhumanity Condemned . . . .. . . . . . . 174 Christianized Survival Cannibalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Flavius Josephus and the Archetype of the Cannibalistic Mother . . . . . . . . . . 197 The Savior's Revenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Iconography of the Cannibalistic Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 The Price of Survival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Chapter 4 Constructions and reconstructions of the discourse on survival cannibalism in the Middle Ages . . . . . . . 223 Cannibalism and the Apocalypse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Rome under siege (408-410): rewritings of famines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Fames facta est ut homo hominem comederet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Cannibalism in a vacuum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Raoul Glaber, the champion of cannibalistic horror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Rumors and the spread of stories of cannibalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 A merciless punishment: God, sin, hunger and cannibalism . . . . . . . 262 The repentant cannibal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 The Crusades and the man-eating Christians . .. . . . . . . . 283 The Middle Ages and cannibalism for survival . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Chapter 5 The Sources of Western Ethnography of Man-Eaters . . . . . . . 299 Homer and Ulysses . . . . . . . . 303 The Cyclops Polyphemus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 The Laestrygonians . . . . . . . . . . 306 Revenge and Cannibalism in the Iliad . . . . . . . . . 309 Fortune and Misfortune of the Cyclops . . . . . . . . . . 312 The Earliest Iconography of Man-Eating Polyphemus . . . . . . . . . 319 The World of Herodotus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Blood-Drinking Greeks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 India and its Man-Eaters . . . . . . . . . 324 The Scythians . . . . . . . . . 328 Massagetae and Issedoni . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Africa and the Disaster of Cambyses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 Rome and the Man-Eaters at the Beginning of the Empire . . . . . . . . 345 Consolidation of the figure of the cannibal of the borders and barbarian threats during Late Antiquity . . . . . . . . . 351 Human flesh eaters and anthropophagous monsters in the Western imagination of the early Middle Ages .. .. . . . 357 New man-eaters in an ancient setting: the Mongols . . . . . 362 Man-eaters on medieval mappae mundi: Hereford and Ebstorf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 Jean de Mandeville and the new ethnography of man-eaters . . . . . . . . . . 377 The man-eaters of Odoric and Mandeville in images . . . . . . . . 387 Man-eaters without a story(ies)? . . . . . . . . . . . 391