"Beaucoup plus barbares que les Sauvages mesmes": Cannibalism, Savagery, and Religious Alterity in Jean de Léry's Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil (1599-1600)

In the fourth edition of Histoire d'un voyage, Jean de Léry compares the extreme barbarity of a broad spectrum of peoples in America, Europe, and Asia Minor. He demonstrates that those in the Old World who wage war because of religious difference are more savage than even the New World's cannibals, who provide an exemplary approach to confronting alterity.