S3 E1. LAND PART I – Alexander Pearce

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Kicking Season 3 off with a bang, Carmella and Alix are back with the ‘maneater of Macquarie Harbour’ – Alexander Pearce.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Season 3 Trailer

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Coming 31 October 2021: Season 3 of Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast.

Join Alix and Carmella for 13 new episodes of survival cannibalism across time and around the world.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

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Season 2 Outtakes

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April Fool’s! We’re back for another round of outtakes from Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

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S2 E13. SEA PART IV – Fun On Boats

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In our final episode of Season 2, Alix and Carmella offer a quick-fire selection of stories on the custom of the sea.

CREDITS

With thanks to Emily for transcription help.

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Boger, J. (1805). ‘Plympton, July 4, 1805’, London Gazette, 6 July, p. 869. Available at: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/15821/page/869
Boréale 138. (2019). Radio-Canada, 31 October. Available at: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/boreale-138/segments/chronique/140347/bateau-naufrage-anticosti-granicus-cannibalisme-cote-nord
Bossé, G.R. (2003). The macabre discovery of the wreck of The bark Granicus, on the Island of Anticosti, during the winter and spring of 1828-1829. Available at: http://www.geocities.ws/grbosse.geo/granicus/granicus.html
‘Charlotte de Berry’. (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_de_Berry
Chronicles of the Sea. (1838). ‘Loss of H.M.S. Nautilus’, Chronicles of the Sea, 13 October, pp. 1-6. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gwUHAAAAQAAJ&dq=HMS%20Nauticus%201807&pg=PA369#v=onepage&q=HMS%20Nautilus%201807&f=false
Coolopolis Montreal. (2013). ‘Cannibalism in Quebec’, Coolopolis, 6 May. Available at: http://coolopolis.blogspot.com/2013/05/cannibalism-in-quebec.html
Drew, C. and D. Stout. (2000). ‘Survivors Tell of Submarine Horrors’, New York Times, 17 August. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/17/world/survivors-tell-of-submarine-horrors.html
Foxe, E. (2004). Charlotte de Berry. Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20050112085737/http://www.bonaventure.org.uk/ed/deberry.htm
Foxe, E. (2004). Charlotte de Berry – 1836. Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20050124113946/http://www.bonaventure.org.uk/ed/lloydscdb.htm
Golden Age of Piracy. (n.d.). Charlotte de Berry. Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20170903101143/http://www.goldenageofpiracy.org/buccaneers/charlotte-de-berry.php
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. (1839). Report from Select Committee on Shipwrecks of Timber Ships. London: House of Commons. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=66kxAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22elizabeth%20rashleigh%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q=%22elizabeth%20rashleigh%22&f=false
John Bull. (1835). ‘Shocking Sufferings’, John Bull, 25(737). Available at: https://www.lastchancetoread.com/docs/1835-01-25-john-bull.aspx
Lettens, J. (2008). ‘HMS Nautilus (+1807)’, Wrecksite, 19 January. Available at: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?17256
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Simpson, B. (2003). Cannibalism and Common Law. London: A&C Black.
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Stone, G. (2008). ‘Janet: the captain’s account’, Westport Historical Society, 26 April. Available at: https://wpthistory.org/2008/04/janet_the_capta/
Terrific Record. (1849). ‘Perils of the sea’, The Terrific Record, 45, pp. 714-715. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=g_oEAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PA714&dq=%22janet%22%20%22Hosmer%22%20%221849%22&pg=PA714#v=onepage&q=%22janet%22%20%22Hosmer%22%20%22&f=false
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Wheeler, R. (2006). Palmer’s Pilgrimage. Oxford: Peter Lang.
Yolen, J. (2010). ‘Charlotte de Berry’ in Sea Queens. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, pp. 55-58.
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S2 E12. SEA PART III – The SS Dumaru

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The SS Dumaru is poorly-built, ugly, and crewed by “bad men of the sea”. When she’s requisitioned for the war effort by the US Navy, her run of bad luck becomes a sprint to disaster.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Adelaide Chronicle. (1918). ‘On the lone ocean’, Adelaide Chronicle, 30 November, p. 34. Available at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/87554536
Allen, G. (2012). ‘Human’ in Deutsch, J. and N. Murakhver (eds.) They Eat That?. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, pp. 100-108.
Bean. T.W. (1919). ‘Invention versus Death – to a Finish’, Popular Science Monthly, 94(6), pp. 22-23. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_igDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22#v=onepage&q&f=false
Christy, C. (2020). ‘9 Shipwrecks Throughout History That Ended In Cannibalism’, Unspeakable Times, 4 February. Available at: https://www.ranker.com/list/shipwrecks-ended-in-cannibalism/chase-christy
Golden, F. and M. Tipton. (2002). ‘Necessities of sustained survival: water and food’ in Essentials of Sea Survival. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
Guy, M. (2007). ‘Shipwreck survivors: three men in a boat’, Independent, 7 January. Available at: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/shipwreck-survivors-three-men-in-a-boat-430798.html
Meister, G. (1969). Letter to Frank Geisel, 26 November. Available at: https://www.sowp.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/LR-1101141916-Meister-Letter.pdf
Newell, C. (2012). ‘A bolt of death from the sky’, Lake Oswego Review, 1 August. Available at: https://pamplinmedia.com/lor/48-news/113002-a-bolt-of-death-from-the-sky?wallit_nosession=1
New York Times. (1918). ‘Four survive the Dumaru’, New York Times, 9 November, p. 13. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/1918/11/09/archives/four-survive-the-dumaru-seamen-from-burning-ship-adrift-without.html?searchResultPosition=4
New York Times. (1918). ‘11 more survivors of the Dumaru’, New York Times, 13 November, p. 3. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/1918/11/13/archives/11-more-survivors-of-the-dumaru.html?searchResultPosition=2
New York Times. (1918). ‘Dumaru’s Entire Crew Saved’, New York Times, 16 November, p. 2. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/1918/11/16/archives/dumarus-entire-crew-saved.html
New York Times. (1930). ‘Adrift in a Life-Boat Twenty-Four Days’, New York Times, 21 September, p. 3. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/1930/09/21/archives/adrift-in-a-lifeboat-twentyfour-days-a-gruesome-tale-of-cannibalism.html?searchResultPosition=3
Nourie, A. and B. Nourie. (1990). ‘Popular Science’ in American Mass Market Magazines, pp. 385-399. Available at: https://archive.org/details/americanmassmark00nour/page/385/mode/2up
Pacific Marine Review. (1920). ‘Lundin life boats praised’, Pacific Marine Review, 17, p. 198. Available at: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2603238&view=1up&seq=198&q1=dumaru
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Rochester (NY). Historian’s Office. (1924). ‘James Feretter’ in World War Service Record. Rochester, NY: City. Vol 1, pp. 137-138. Available at: http://www.libraryweb.org/~digitized/books/World_War_service_record_vol_1.pdf
Stilgoe, J. (2003). ‘Passage’ in Lifeboat. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, pp. 186-216.
The Recruit. (1918). ‘Five shipwrecked men off Guam’, The Recruit, 4(12), p. 98.
United States. Department of Commerce and Bureau of Navigation. (1920). Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States. Washington: US Government Printing Office. Vol 51. Available at: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=d14uAAAAYAAJ
Williams, G. (2017). The United States Merchant Marine in World War I. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

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S2 E11. SEA PART II – Charlesfort

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Religious turmoil. Espionage. Mutiny. Bad accents. This is the story of Charlesfort – an early French attempt to establish a colony in North America.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Access Genealogy. (n.d.). The French Colony of Charlesfort. Available at: https://accessgenealogy.com/south-carolina/french-colony-of-charlesfort.htm
Bell, S.M. (2012). ‘France’s Lost Colony: One of ‘Em, Anyway’, je parle américain, 17 May. Available at: https://jeparleamericain.com/2012/05/17/frances-lost-colony-one-of-em-anyway/
Curry, K. (1928). ‘Jean Ribaut, His Personality and Achievements’, Florida Historical Society Quarterly, 7(2), pp. 159-163. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/30149685
Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2020). ‘Jean Ribaut’, in Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Ribaut
Florida Center for Instructional Technology. (2002). Jean Ribault Claims Florida for France. Available at: https://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/ribault/ribault1.htm
Greene, H. (2019). ‘Charleston’, in South Carolina Encyclopedia. Available at: https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/charleston/
Harris, S. (1963). ‘The Tragic Dream Of Jean Ribaut’, American Heritage, 14(6). Available at: https://www.americanheritage.com/tragic-dream-jean-ribaut
Meide, C. (2014). Historical Background Part I: French Colonization in Florida, 1562-1565. Available at: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/14lostfleet/background/history-pt1/history-pt1.html
Quirion, K.R.T. (2020). ‘The Story of a Failed French Settlement in 16th Century North America: Charlesfort’, History is Now Magazine, 31 May. Available at: http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2020/5/31/the-story-of-a-failed-french-settlement-in-16th-century-north-america-charlesfort#.X0kAP8hKjIU=
Revue pour les jeunes filles. (1898). ‘Autour de la Floride’, in Revue pour les jeune filles. Paris: Armand Colin. Vol. 3, pp. 576-587. Available at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5322731v/
Saraceni, J.E. (1996). ‘Charlesfort Identified’, Archaeology, 49(5). Available at: https://archive.archaeology.org/9609/newsbriefs/charlesfort.html
SC Picture Project. (n.d.). Charlesfort & Santa Elena. Available at: https://www.scpictureproject.org/beaufort-county/charlesfort-santa-elena.html
Thompson, C. (2015). From Charlesfort to Jamestown: French and English Imperial Efforts in Early American History. M.A. Thesis. College of William and Mary. Available at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6130&context=etd

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S2 E10. SEA PART I – The SS Rooseboom

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This week we return to the Pacific theatre of WWII, where Dutch steam-ship Rooseboom is in the process of evacuating 500 passengers from Padang to Ceylon.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Allen, T. and N. Vleggeert. (2019). ‘SS Rooseboom (+1942)’, Wrecksite. Available at: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?17527
Brooke, G. (1990). Singapore’s Dunkirk. London: Leo Cooper.
Gibson, W. (2007). The Boat. Burrough on the Hill: Monsoon Books.
Gladstone, M. (2017). Largie Castle, A Rifled Nest. Southerness: Firefallmedia.
Kingshott, J.B. (n.d.). Robert William George Kingshott. Available at: https://www.kingshott.info/robert-w-g-kingshott
Pether, M. (2011). SS. Rooseboom. Available at: https://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/evacuation_ships/html/s__rooseboom_history.htm
Pether, M. (2013). ‘SS. ROOSEBOOM – Sunk by Japanese submarine number I-159 on 1st March 1942’, South African Military History Society, May 2013. Available at: https://www.samilitaryhistory.org/diaries/roosboom.html
‘SS Rooseboom’. (2020). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Rooseboom
The Times. (2005). ‘Walter Gibson’, The Times, 27 April. Available at: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/walter-gibson-m3vb6x9pvnt
Turner, D. (2019). Be Grateful: Brighton College’s Fallen 1939–45. Oxford: Bloomsbury.
Weintraub, R. (2015). No Better Friend. New York: Little, Brown.

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S2 E9. LAND PART VII – The First Crusade

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1098. Frankish knights reach the city of Ma’arra. As the crusaders surround the city walls, in an unusual reversal of convention, this time it’s the besiegers who find themselves desperate for food.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Andrea, A.J. and A. Holt. (2015). Seven Myths of the Crusades. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett.
Asbridge, T. (2005). The First Crusade. London: The Free Press.
Heller, S. (2011). ‘Terror in the Old French Crusade Cycle: from Splendid Cavalry to Cannibalism’. Re-Visioning Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary and International Conference, Purdue University, Indiana, 8-10 September 2011. Available at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=revisioning
Heng, G. (1998). ‘Cannibalism, the first crusade, and the genesis of Medieval Romance’, Differences, 10(1), pp. 98-174. Available at: http://clworldhistory.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/3/3/10332912/cannibalism_and_crusades.pdf
Kostick, C. (2008). ‘Pauperes and the first crusade: from Antioch to Jerusalem’, in The Social Structure of the First Crusade. Leiden: Brill, pp. 131-158. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1gw.9?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Le Strange, G. (1890). Palestine under the Moslems. London: Alexander P. Watt. Available at: https://archive.org/details/palestineundermo00lestuoft/page/n3/mode/2up
Maalouf, A. (2012). The Crusades Through Arab Eyes. London: Saqi Books.
Rubenstein, J. (2008). ‘Cannibals and crusaders’, French Historical Studies, 31(4), pp. 525-552. Available at: http://courses.washington.edu/holywar/Links_files/Cannibals%20and%20Crusaders.pdf

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S2 E8. LAND PART VI – Alfred Packer

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Colorado. 1883. Alfred Packer is standing trial. His alleged crime? Luring five men into the mountains with the intention of murdering them and stealing their belongings, then eating their bodies when food ran out.

London. 2021. Casting Lots Podcast is here to answer the question once and for all: Alfred Packer, guilty or not guilty?

CREDITS

With thanks to Emily for transcription help.

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Adams, C. (1874). ‘A party of miners on the plains kill and eat each other’, National Republican, 26 May, p. 5. Available at: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86053573/1874-05-26/ed-1/seq-5/#words=Packer
Bailey, D.P. (2009). ‘Solving the American West’s Greatest Mystery: Was Alferd Packer Innocent of Murder?’ [PDF] Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20130117101738/https://www.museumofwesternco.com/media/cms/includes/pathways_article_packer_solve.pdf
Benson, K. and M. Benson. (2000). Alfred “Alferd” Packer. Available at: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/785/alfred-packer
Colorado State Library. (n.d.) Alferd Packer: Notorious Cannibal. Available at: https://www.coloradovirtuallibrary.org/digital-colorado/colorado-histories/beginnings/alferd-packer-notorious-cannibal/
Colorado Tourism Office. (n.d.) Alfred Packer. Available at: https://lakecity.com/alfred-packer/
Curry, A. (2002). ‘Case of the Colorado Cannibal’, Archaeology, 55(3). Available at: https://archive.archaeology.org/0205/abstracts/cannibal.html
Daily Arizona Silver Belt. (1907). ‘Scout who ate human flesh dies’, Daily Arizona Silver Belt, 27 April, p. 1. Available at: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87082863/1907-04-27/ed-1/seq-1/#words=Alfred+Packer
Di Stefano, D. (2006). ‘Alfred Packer’s World: Risk, Responsibility, and the Place of Experience in Mountain Culture, 1873-1907’, Journal of Social History, 40(1), pp. 181-204. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4491860
Dobson, G.B. (n.d.) Fort Fetterman. Available at: http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/fetterman.html
Elk County Advocate. (1874). ‘A White Cannibal’, Elk County Advocate, 1 October, p. 4. Available at: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026259/1874-10-01/ed-1/seq-4/
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S2 E7. LAND PART V – Count Ugolino

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

Did you know that there’s survival cannibalism in Dante’s Divine Comedy? And it’s based on a true story? This week, we look at the infamous ‘Cannibal Count’, Ugolino della Gherardesca.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

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Alighieri, D. (1997). Divine Comedy, Longfellow’s Translation, Hell. Translated by H.W. Longfellow. Urbana, IL: Project Gutenberg. Available at: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1001/1001-h/1001-h.htm
Benigni, P. (2008). ‘Ugolino della Gherardesca: cronaca di una scoperta annunciata’, Archeologia Viva, 128, pp. 64-67. Available at: https://www.archeologiaviva.it/2976/ugolino-della-gherardesca-cronaca-di-una-scoperta-annunciata/
Bentley, R. (1864). ‘Count Ugolino of Pisa’, in Bentley, R. (ed.) Bentley’s Miscellany. London: Chapman and Hall; v. 55, pp. 173-178.
Casina Rosa, G. (2016). ‘Of starvation and cannibalism in Pisa’, At Home In Tuscany, 20 October. Available at: http://www.athomeintuscany.org/2016/10/20/starvation-cannibalism-pisa/
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Herzman, R.B. (1980). ‘Cannibalism and Communion in Inferno XXXIII’, Dante Studies, 98, pp. 53-78. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40166287

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