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

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