TY - SER
KW - History
KW - England
KW - To 1500
KW - leprosy
KW - Treatment
KW - Social Conditions
KW - Person affected by leprosy
KW - Medicine
AU - Rawcliffe C
AB - 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.
C6 - link to publisher
C7 - Carole Rawcliffe
CN - 130.1 RAW b
CY - Woodbridge
LA - eng
N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents 1 Creating the medieval leper: some myths and misunderstandings 2 The body and the soul: ideas about causation 3 The sick and the healthy: reactions to suffering 4 Priests and physicians: the business of diagnosis 5 Medicine and surgery: the battle against disease 6 A Disease appart? The impact of segregation 7 Life in the medieval leper house
N2 - 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.
PB - Boydell
PP - Woodbridge
PY - 2009
SN - 9781843834540
EP - xii
EP - 421 p.
TI - Leprosy in medieval England
UR - http://www.boydell.co.uk/43832739.HTM
ER -