Chapter 22. The Ultimate Crime: Cannibalism in Early Modern Minds and Imaginations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction. Crime, Transgression, and Deviancy: Behaviors that Defines Us All 1
4. Chapter 1. Le ‘crime épique’ et sa punition: quelques exemples (XIIe-XIIIe siècles) 29
5. Chapter 2. “I know how to be a whore and thief” The poet’s reputation: troubadours – ancestors of poètes maudits? 43
6. Chapter 3. The Law – Letter and Spirit: Language, Transgression and Justice In Three Medieval German Epic Poems 65
7. Chapter 4. Crime, Punishment and the Hybrid in Medieval French Romance: Robert the Devil and Geoffrey Big Tooth 87
8. Chapter 5. Judicium Dei, vulgaris popularisque sensus: Survival of Customary Justice and Resistance to its Displacement by the “New” Ordines iudiciorum as Evidenced by Francophonic Literature of the High Middle Ages 109
9. Chapter 6. Crime and Violence in the Middle Ages: The Cases of Heinrich der Glichezare’s Reinhard Fuchs and Wernher der Gartenære’s Helmbrecht 131
10. Chapter 7. The Function of Projected Pain: The Poetry of François Villon and the Gift of Self 159
11. Chapter 8. Retribution in Gamelyn: A Case in the Courts 175
12. Chapter 9. Contra Signum Nostrum: The Symbolism of Lèse-majesté under Philip VI Valois 189
13. Chapter 10. Women as Victims and Criminals in the Siete Partidas 225
14. Chapter 11. Theft in Juan Manuel’s El Conde Lucanor 247
15. Chapter 12. Competition for the Prisoner’s Body: Wardens and Jailers in Fourteenth-Century Southern France 281
16. Chapter 13. The Host on the Doorstep: Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders in an Alleged Host Desecration in Fourteenth-Century Austria 299
17. Chapter 14. Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?: Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale and the Worlds of Judgment 347
18. Chapter 15. Deviancy in the Late Middle Ages: The Crimes and Punishment of Gilles de Rais 359
19. Chapter 16. The Celebratory Conical Hat in La Celestina 403
20. Chapter 17. Equal Opportunity Vengeance in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre 415
21. Chapter 18. Crimes et Châtiments d’Exception en France au Temps des Guerres de Religion: l’Utopie Judiciaire des Commentaires de Monluc (livres V à VII) 437
22. Chapter 19. The Amsterdam Spinhuis and the “Art” of Correction 459
23. Chapter 20. Pimping for the Fairy Queen: Some Cozeners in Shakespeare’s England 491
24. Chapter 21. Réflexions de Montaigne sur le châtiment des criminels 509
25. Chapter 22. The Ultimate Crime: Cannibalism in Early Modern Minds and Imaginations 521
26. Chapter 23. Punishment Post Mortem – The Crime of Suicide in Early Modern Austria and Sweden 555
27. List of Illustrations 577
28. Contributors 581
29. Index 591
30. Acknowledgment and Gratitude 601