"Organized around the unsettlingly frequent appearance of the figure of the cannibal and scenes of cannibalism in a wide assortment of texts produced in England between the tenth and fifteenth centuries, this book deeply explores the connections between literary representation and the processes of imperial conquest, territorial consolidation, and internal colonization that marked the continuous history of medieval England both before and after 1066. This book will immediately establish Blurton as a major voice in one of the most interesting conversations taking place in contemporary medieval studies. Blurton's study joins the ranks of those medievalists whose work is currently effacing the sharp divide that has separated the early from the later Middle Ages and 'medieval alterity' from modernity."--Robert M. Stein, Purchase College and Columbia University   "[Blurton] assembles much new material, making us look at her subject again. Her book will thus be a first port of call for researchers on anthropophagy." -Andrew Breeze, University of Navarre, Pamplona.