[Sca-cooks] Crusades and cannibalism

[Ana Valdés]

Since I have Spanish as mothertongue and Swedish as second, but I use
fluently English and French, its only a question of "habit" more than a
conscient choice. But I am curious now, which word do you mean, master
Cariadoc?? Maybe I am not aware I use the French (I think at the time of
the Crusades the actual French was still a "language" in process, making
a mixture of Latin and Gallic and German) word or concept.
Ana

david friedman wrote:

> 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/
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