Medieval Man-Eaters: Cannibalism and Community in Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Ambrisco, Alan Scott.
Medieval Man-Eaters: Cannibalism and Community in Middle English Literature
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1569A, 1999.
- Description
- In medieval thinking, cannibalism became a marker setting off the Christian West from the barbarian East. Gradually, cannibalism came to be perceived sometimes figuratively, involving both the self and the other and a sense of identity. Ambrisco reads SqT as a consuming of Eastern culture to promote English identity and language.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale.