Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Title:

ISBN:

9780230118614

Personal Author:

Noble, L. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2011.

Publication Information New:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Physical Description:

XIII, 241 p. online resource.

Series:

Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700,

Abstract:

The human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture , which explores the connections between early modern literary representations of the eaten body and the medical consumption of corpses.

Subject Term:

Literature, Medieval.

European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600.

Science -- History.

European literature.

Intellectual life -- History.

Medicine -- History.

Medieval Literature.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

History of Science.

Intellectual History.

History of Medicine.