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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brenner, Elma, editor.

Touati, François-Olivier, editor.

Series:

Social histories of medicine.

Social Histories of Medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leprosy--England--History--To 1500.

Leprosy.

Leprosy--Europe--History--To 1500.

Medicine, Medieval--Social aspects--England.

Medicine, Medieval.

Medicine Medieval--Social aspects--Europe.

Medicine Medieval.

Identity (Psychology)--History--To 1500.

Identity (Psychology).

Europe.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

For the first time, this volume explores the identities of leprosy sufferers and other people affected by the disease in medieval Europe. The chapters, including contributions by leading voices such as Luke Demaitre, Carole Rawcliffe and Charlotte Roberts, challenge the view that people with leprosy were uniformly excluded and stigmatised. Instead, they reveal the complexity of responses to this disease and the fine line between segregation and integration. Ranging across disciplines, from history to bioarchaeology, Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages encompasses post-medieval perspectives as well as the attitudes and responses of contemporaries. Subjects include hospital care, diet, sanctity, miraculous healing, diagnosis, iconography and public health regulation. This richly illustrated collection presents previously unpublished archival and material sources from England to the Mediterranean.

Contents:

Introduction

Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati<b>Part I: Approaching leprosy and identity </b>1 Reflections on the bioarchaeology of leprosy and identity, past and present

Charlotte Roberts2 Lepers and leprosy: connections between East and West in the Middle Ages

François-Olivier Touati3 The disease and the sacred: the leper as a scapegoat in England and Normandy (eleventh-twelfth centuries)

Damien Jeanne<b>Part II: Within the leprosy hospital: between segregation and integration</b>4 'A mighty force in the ranks of Christ's army': intercession and integration in the medieval English leper hospital

Carole Rawcliffe5 Saint Mary Magdalen, Winchester: the archaeology and history of an English <i>leprosarium </i>and almshouse

Simon Roffey6 Diet as a marker of identity in the leprosy hospitals of medieval northern France

Elma Brenner<b>Part III: Beyond the leprosy hospital: the language of poverty and charity</b>7 Good people, poor sick: the social identities of lepers in the late medieval Rhineland

Lucy Barnhouse8 The clapper as 'vox miselli': new perspectives on iconography

Luke Demaitre<b>Part IV: Religious and social identities</b>9 Kissing lepers: Saint Francis and the treatment of lepers in the central Middle Ages

Courtney A. Krolikoski10 From pilgrim to knight, from monk to bishop: the distorted identities of leprosy within the Order of Saint Lazarus

Rafaël Hyacinthe 11 Connotation and denotation: the construction of the leper in Narbonne and Siena before the plague

Anna M. Peterson<b>Part V: Post-medieval perspectives</b>12 'Our loathsome ancestors': reinventing medieval leprosy for the modern world, 1850-1950

Kathleen Vongsathorn and Magnus VollsetIndex

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ISBN:

1-5261-2742-3

OCLC:

1255833305