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LEPROSY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
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| By: |
Carole Rawcliffe |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£60.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1843832739 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781843832737 |
| Publisher: |
BOYDELL & BREWER LTD |
| Pub. date: |
19 October, 2006 |
| Pages: |
440 |
| Description: |
Set in the medical, religious and cultural milieu of the European Middle Ages, this book offers an academic study of Leprosy. This book reveals that our stereotyped ideas about the segregation of medieval lepers originated in the nineteenth century and that in the later Middle Ages it was diagnosed readily even by laity. |
| Synopsis: |
Set firmly in the medical, religious and cultural milieu of the European Middle Ages, this book is the first serious academic study of a disease surrounded by misconceptions and prejudices. Even specialists will be surprised to learn that most of our stereotyped 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; that the decline of leprosy was not monocausal but implied a complex web of factors - medical, environmental, social and legal. Carole Rawcliffe writes with consummate skill, subtlety and rigour; her book will change forever the image of the medieval leper. Carole Rawcliffe is Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. |
| Illustrations: |
35 black and white, 6 line drawing |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
The Boydell Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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