Physicke from Another Body
Michael Neill: Cannibal Tinctures, 1 December 2011
Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
by Louise Noble.
Palgrave Macmillan, 241 pp., £52, March 2011,978 0 230 11027 4 Show More
by Louise Noble.
Palgrave Macmillan, 241 pp., £52, March 2011,
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians
by Richard Sugg.
Routledge, 374 pp., £24.99, June 2011,978 0 415 67417 1 Show More
by Richard Sugg.
Routledge, 374 pp., £24.99, June 2011,
“... dead mother, upon whose flesh they had fed twenty days past, and having eaten all from the feete upward to the bare bones, rosting it continually by a slow fire, were now come to the eating of her said entralls in like sort roasted, yet not divided from the body, being as yet raw. Moryson’s rhetoric ensures that the grisly detail of the scene overwhelms ... ”