Famine in 1033 drove Europeans to sell cooked human flesh openly

Evidence

“Raoul Glaber has described with an insistence verging on sadism the appalling famine which preceded the year 1033. He notes for instance that at the fair at Tournus in Burgundy, a man was offering human flesh for sale, ready cooked on a butcher’s stall.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1476

Categorization

• CANDY: A grim but vivid conversational fact about medieval famine extremes.
• ADDENDUM: Could support the ‘On Sacrifice’ article’s theme of extreme scarcity-driven human commodification.
• XREF: connects to: Human sacrifice was rational necessity when groups could only survive by eating human flesh