Flesh and Blood. Images and Practices of Cannibalism from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.
PURennes| N° d'inventaire | 18259 |
| Format | 15.5 x 24 |
| Détails | 414 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Rennes, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
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