bokomslag Leprosy in Medieval England
Historia

Leprosy in Medieval England

Carole Rawcliffe

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  • 436 sidor
  • 2006
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.
  • Författare: Carole Rawcliffe
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781843832737
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 436
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2006-10-01
  • Förlag: The Boydell Press