Also in the eleventh century, according to the testimony of Thietmar of Merseberg, "The Polish princes punished those who violated the ecclesiastical laws on meat abstention by using persuasive methods like pulling out of teeth"; a lesser penalty, however, than that called for by Charlemagne in the capitulary De Partibus Saxoniae, which was no less than death.

—Massimo Montanari, The Culture of Food