[Sca-cooks] Crusades and cannibalism

[Terry Decker]

As I recall, it was the Seige of Acre, when both sides were running out of
provisions and Baldwin needed more provender to keep the seige in place.

Bear


>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.
>--
>David/Cariadoc