The Barberini Butchers Christina Bradstreet we inhale these ghostly narratives

we inhale these ghostly narratives upon the opening of each creaking door

In the process of exploring these dominant narratives

are reflected in this volume

" (from chapter 9)

The Barberini Butchers Christina Bradstreet we inhale these ghostly narrativesAn examination of how the unsustainable consumption of meat in seventeenth century Rome both symbolized the extent of papal power and sparked the outbreak of civil war In 1644 four norcini or pork butchers were accused of killing not pigs, but seven of their fellow citizens, stripping the meat from the bones, then combining it with pig to make sausages, which were then sold to Romans from their shop behind the Pantheon. In the multiple pamphlets