“Ambiguous and dangerous meat:” Herpetophagy in the early modern world

Michael Walkden

was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Before 'Farm to Table': Early Modern Foodways and Culture project, a Mellon-funded initiative at the Folger Shakespeare Library. He completed his PhD in History at the University of York, looking at the relationship between digestion and emotion in early modern English medicine. His project, "Eating the Inedible", explores the medical and religious underpinnings of dietary taboos in the early modern world. — View all posts by Michael Walkden