Consume or be consumed: Anthropophagy in eleventh-to-thirteenth-century European travel literature

该研究项目调查了11至13世纪西欧“旅行文学”中食用人肉（被称为人食，或者同类相食）是如何影响旅行者的经历以及它所描述的旅行的修辞意义的。通过分离西欧旅行叙事中的食人修辞，我将揭示11至13世纪旅行文学的期望和实践，并分析食人情节如何反映当代对暴力、救赎和人体意义的态度。

The research project investigates how the consumption of human flesh(known as anthropophagy, or cannibalism if the consumer is also human) in eleventh-to thirteenth-century western-European 'travel literature' affects the experience of the traveller and the rhetorical significance of the journey it describes. By isolating anthropophagical rhetoric in western-European journey narratives, I will shed new light on the expectations and practices of eleventh-to thirteenth-century travel literature and analyse how episodes of anthropophagy reflect contemporary attitudes towards violence, salvation and the significance of the human body.