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- Title
"What, is Sarezyns flesch thus good?": Cannibalism and the Humors in Richard Cœr de Lyon.
- Authors
Mayrhofer, Sonja
- Abstract
This article examines the Middle English romance Richard Cœr de Lyon, in which Richard, suffering from an illness that stems from an aversion to the Saracen climate, is healed through the ingestion of Saracen flesh. My argument focuses on the transformational force of cannibalism, that metamorphic moment where a humored body of one race ingests the humored body of a different race and, through this violent act, assumes its, in this case, aggressive and choleric humoral constitution.
- Subjects
CANNIBALS; DONNER Party; PRIMITIVE societies; ETHNOLOGY; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
eHumanista, 2013, Vol 25, p75
- ISSN
1540-5877
- Publication type
Article