Brenner / Unknown / Touati Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages

From England to the Mediterranean
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2742-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 35, 424 Seiten

Reihe: Social Histories of Medicine

This book presents new, cross-disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses to the disease, challenging earlier views that medieval sufferers were uniformly stigmatised. The social, religious and cultural impacts are explored, as are post-medieval perspectives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Brenner, Elma

Touati, François-Olivier

Touati, Francois-Olivier

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati

Part 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 – François-Olivier Touati
3 The disease and the sacred: the leper as a scapegoat in England and Normandy (eleventh–twelfth centuries) – Damien Jeanne

Part 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

Part 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

Part 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 – Rafaël Hyacinthe
11 Connotation and denotation: the construction of the leper in Narbonne and Siena before the plague – Anna M. Peterson

Part V: Post-medieval perspectives
12 ‘Our loathsome ancestors’: reinventing medieval leprosy for the modern world, 1850–1950 – Kathleen Vongsathorn and Magnus Vollset

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elma Brenner is Research Development Specialist (Medieval and Early Modern) at Wellcome Collection
François-Olivier Touati is Professor at the Université François Rabelais (Tours)