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Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages : from England to the Mediterranean / edited by Elma Brenner, François-Olivier Touati.

Van Pelt Library RA644.L3 L47 2021
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Brenner, Elma, editor.
Touati, François-Olivier, editor.
Series:
Social histories of medicine
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Leprosy--Patients--Europe--History--To 1500.
Leprosy--Patients--Europe--Social conditions.
Medicine, Medieval--Europe.
Leprosy--history.
Leprosy--Patients.
Leprosy--Patients--Social conditions.
Medicine, Medieval.
Social conditions.
History.
Europe.
Medical Subjects:
Leprosy--history.
Europe.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
xix, 400 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Place of Publication:
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Approaching leprosy and identity
1. Reflections on the bioarchaeology of leprosy and identity, past and present / Charlotte Roberts
2. Lepers and leprosy: connections between East and West in the Middle Ages / Francois-Olivier Touati
3. The disease and the sacred: the leper as a scapegoat in England and Normandy (eleventh
twelfth centuries) / Damien Jeanne
pt. II Within the leprosy hospital: between segregation and integration
4. `A mighty force in the ranks of Christ's army': intercession and integration in the medieval English leper hospital / Carole Rawcliffe
5. Saint Mary Magdalen, Winchester: the archaeology and history of an English leprosarium and almshouse / Simon Roffey
6. Diet as a marker of identity in the leprosy hospitals of medieval northern France / Elma Brenner
pt. III Beyond the leprosy hospital: the language of poverty and charity
7. Good people, poor sick: the social identities of lepers in the late medieval Rhineland / Lucy Barnhouse
8. The clapper as `vox miselli': new perspectives on iconography / Luke Demaitre
pt. IV Religious and social identities
9. Kissing lepers: Saint Francis and the treatment of lepers in the central Middle Ages / Courtney A. Krolikoski
10. From pilgrim to knight, from monk to bishop: the distorted identities of leprosy within the Order of Saint Lazarus / Rafael Hyacinthe
11. Connotation and denotation: the construction of the leper in Narbonne and Siena before the plague / Anna M. Peterson
pt. V Post-medieval perspectives
12. `Our loathsome ancestors': reinventing medieval leprosy for the modern world, 1850
1950 / Magnus Vollset.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
ebook version :
ISBN:
9781526127419
1526127415
OCLC:
1137807505
Publisher Number:
99987735914

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