[Sca-cooks] Crusades and cannibalism

[david friedman]

Ana asks about cannibalism and the crusades.

I believe I have seen an account of cannibalism, based on both
Islamic and Christian sources. But as I remember it the story
involved a particular city that was attacked by a crusading army,
taken, and the inhabitants, or some of them, killed and eaten. It was
probably in either _The Crusades through Arab Eyes_ or the similar
book by someone else--I want to say Gabrieli, _Arab Historians of the
Crusades_, but that's by memory and might be wrong. One of the two
books is actually translations of primary source material from the
Islamic side, the other a history based on such material.

I am curious as to whether Ana realizes that she occasionally uses
the French rather than the English word for something. Not a
problem--indeed entertaining.
--
David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/