"Such suffering from hunger grew up around these cities that the Christians, in the face of the scarcity about which you have heard, did not fear to eat – wicked to say, much less to do – the bodies, cooked in fire, not only of the Saracens or Turks they had killed, but also of the dogs that they had caught."
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Cited in Rubenstein, Jay (2008), "Cannibals and Crusaders", French Historical Studies, 31 (4), p.535
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