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Informationen zum Autor Elma Brenner is Research Development Specialist (Medieval and Early Modern) at Wellcome CollectionFrançois-Olivier Touati is Professor at the Université François Rabelais Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . 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 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 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 Rawcliffe5 Saint Mary Magdalen, Winchester: the archaeology and history of an English leper hospital and almshouse - Simon Roffey6 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 Barnhouse8 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. 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 Peterson Part V: Post-medieval perspectives 12 'Our loathsome ancestors': reinventing medieval leprosy for the modern world, 1850-1950 - Kathleen Vongsathorn and Magnus VollsetIndex...
