Human flesh does a body good? Cannibalism as medicine in Medieval Europe

By Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez, Chercheur invité, LaMOP (UMR 8589), Université Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne & Postdoctoral Fellow, Facultade de Historia, Instituto de Investigación de Humanidades, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela., Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

The modern history of Western Europe is defined by opposition. Europe is presented as a beacon of civilisation facing down the barbarous masses that populated the rest of the world, and one of the customs that, for centuries, stood between Europeans and the rest of the world was cannibalism.

While it is often portrayed as one of the cruellest and most horrifying practices imaginable, my recent…

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