Fw: [Sca-cooks] Crusades and cannibalism

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> Thanks a lot!! Actually my reflexion was why should we, "modern people" have
> another sensibility than our parents and grandparents? I mean, why the passage
> of cannibalism was expurged from modern editions but was included in the Pleyade
> edition of Villehardouin?

If the History of the Crusades book is correct, the allegation is that
_the lower classes_ took part in cannibalism, also that cannibalism was
practiced on those of a different culture. Both culture-centric references
that the 19th century authors would have been ok with, but the moderns
would not.

On the other hand, if the stories could not be substantiated and proved to
be propaganda of some sort, moderns might have removed them where our more
credulous 19th century historians might have included them.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
"Words can be your friend or your enemy, depending on who's
throwing the book, so watch your language." Stoppard