Transposed appetites: Mary of Jerusalem’s cannibalism in post-Reformation narratives
This essay examines the intersection of ritual sacrifice, blood libel, and child murder in the story of Mary of Jerusalem, whom Josephus describes as having killed and eaten her own son during the 70 CE destruction of Jerusalem. While Reformation accounts of Mary’s cannibalism served, unsurprisingly...
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University of Chicago Press
2021
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