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