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Leprosy in medieval England / Carole Rawcliffe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rawcliffe, Carole, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leprosy--England--History--To 1500.
- Leprosy.
- Leprosy--Treatment--England--History--To 1500.
- Leprosy--Patients--England--Social conditions.
- Medicine, Medieval--Social aspects--England.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Leprosy--history.
- Leprosy--epidemiology.
- Leper Colonies--history.
- Social Conditions.
- Religion and Medicine.
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
- History, Medieval.
- Social aspects.
- Leprosy--Patients.
- Social conditions.
- Leprosy--Treatment.
- History.
- England--epidemiology.
- England.
- Medical Subjects:
- Leprosy--history.
- Leprosy--epidemiology.
- Leper Colonies--history.
- Social Conditions.
- Religion and Medicine.
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
- History, Medieval.
- England--epidemiology.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- "Set firmly in the medical, religious and cultural milieu of the European middle ages, this hook is the first serious academic study of a disease surrounded by misconceptions and prejudices." "Even specialists will be surprised to learn that most stereotypical ideas about the segregation of medieval lepers originated in the nineteenth century; that leprosy excited a vast range of responses, from admiration to revulsion; that in the later middle ages it was diagnosed readily even by laity; that a wide range of treatment was available; that medieval leper hospitals were no more austere than the monasteries on which they were modelled; and that the decline of leprosy was not monocausal but implied a complex web of factors - medical, environmental, social and legal."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- List of illustration s
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Creating the medieval leper : some myths and misunderstandings
- 'This global disaster' : the biomedical model
- 'Outside the camp' " the missionary model
- 'Leporises of sin' : the literary model
- Consolidating the myth
- 2. The body and the soul : ideas about causation
- The wages of sin
- The gift of paradise
- A question of balance
- From sāraʻath to elephanica
- 'malencolik mete' and 'fleschelie lust'
- 'A contagiouse sekenesse and infectynge'
- Murky and malicious planets
- 3. The sick and the healthy : reactions to suffering
- 'Bothe fowlle and fayer' : saints and sinners
- 'For loue of her lowe hertis' : humility, penitence and confession
- 'Thou art a foule lepre' : conflicting responses
- From infirmitas to caritas : the uses of leprosy.
- 4. Priests and physicians : the business of diagnosis
- Applying science : the spread of information
- Monks and miracles : the shrine
- Physicians of the soul : the confessional
- Practitioners at work : the judicium
- Popular perceptions : juries and presentments
- 5. Medicine and surgery : the battle against disease
- Diet and medication
- Baths
- Surgical procedures
- Accidents of the soul
- Blood and alchemy
- 6. A disease apart? : the impact of segregation
- Canon law
- The common law
- The fear of miasma and contagion
- The wild and the tame
- Finding a hospital place
- 7. Life in the medieval leper house
- Degrees of separation
- Care of the body
- Care of the soul
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index of leper houses, hospitals and almshouses.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-395) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781843834540
- 1843834545
- 9781843832737
- 1843832739
- OCLC:
- 70765638
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