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Zusatztext '...she [Blurton] assembles much new material! making us look at her subject again. Her book will thus be first port of call for researchers on anthropophagy.' - Andrew Breeze! Modern Language Review Informationen zum Autor HEATHER BLURTON is a lecturer in the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Department of English at the University of York, UK. Klappentext This 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. Zusammenfassung This 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Cannibal Narratives Selfeaters: The Cannibal Narrative of Andreas Eotonweard: Watching for Cannibals in the Beowulf-manuscript Cannibal Kings: Communion and Community in Twelfth-Century England Tartars and Traitors: The Uses of Cannibalism in Matthew Paris's Chronica majora The Flesch of a Sarazeyn: Cannibalism, Genre and Nationalism
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Cannibal Narratives Selfeaters: The Cannibal Narrative of Andreas Eotonweard: Watching for Cannibals in the Beowulf-manuscript Cannibal Kings: Communion and Community in Twelfth-Century England Tartars and Traitors: The Uses of Cannibalism in Matthew Paris's Chronica majora The Flesch of a Sarazeyn: Cannibalism, Genre and Nationalism
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'...she [Blurton] assembles much new material, making us look at her subject again. Her book will thus be first port of call for researchers on anthropophagy.' - Andrew Breeze, Modern Language Review
