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- Title
Cannibals and Crusaders.
- Authors
Rubenstein, Jay
- Abstract
The article discusses the contemporary evidence connected to crusader cannibalism. According to the author, cannibalism was not confined to a single incident of famine and was not always a response to hunger. It explores how chroniclers and one poet attempted to resolve the issues of tensions, contradictions and inconsistencies underpinning cannibals. It highlights the First Crusade in 1096 regarding the massacres of Jews along the Rhine in Germany, as well as the killing of nearly all of Jerusalem's inhabitants such as men, women and children in 1099.
- Subjects
GERMANY; CRUSADES (Middle Ages); CANNIBALISM; FAMINES; HUNGER; CANNIBALS; JEWS; MASS murder; INCONSISTENCY (Logic)
- Publication
French Historical Studies, 2008, Vol 31, Issue 4, p525
- ISSN
0016-1071
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/00161071-2008-005