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Cannibalism at the Siege of Sancerre with Amanda Coate
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A siege story that treats cannibalism as evidence, fear, and a test of social order.
Famine sits at the center of this episode, but the sharper question is what hunger does to social trust. Amanda Cote, a PhD candidate in history at Stanford University, looks at reports of cannibalism during the 1573 siege of Sancerre, where months of scarcity pushed residents…
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