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- catalog abstract "Examines three diseases--leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis--to show how doctors, priests, and literary authors from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance interpreted certain illnesses through a moral filter. Lacking knowledge about the transmission of contagious diseases, doctors and priests saw epidemic diseases as a punishment sent by God for human transgression. Accordingly, their job was to properly read sickness in relation to the sin. By examining different readings of specific illnesses, this book shows how the social construction of epidemic diseases formed a kind of narrative wherein man attempts to take the control of the disease out of God's hands by connecting epidemic diseases to the sins of carnality.".
- catalog contributor b13128758.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description "1. From Sophrosyne to sin -- 2. Leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis -- 3. Leprosy and spiritual sins in medieval literature -- 4. Plague as apocalypse in medieval literature -- 5. Learning to cope with disease -- 6. Leprosy and syphilis in early modern literature.".
- catalog description "Examines three diseases--leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis--to show how doctors, priests, and literary authors from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance interpreted certain illnesses through a moral filter. Lacking knowledge about the transmission of contagious diseases, doctors and priests saw epidemic diseases as a punishment sent by God for human transgression. Accordingly, their job was to properly read sickness in relation to the sin. By examining different readings of specific illnesses, this book shows how the social construction of epidemic diseases formed a kind of narrative wherein man attempts to take the control of the disease out of God's hands by connecting epidemic diseases to the sins of carnality.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-195) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 206 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0415968224 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Medieval history and culture ; v. 23".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Routledge,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "2004 C-779".
- catalog subject "820.9/3561 22".
- catalog subject "Diseases Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Diseases in literature.".
- catalog subject "English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Epidemics Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "History, Early Modern 1451-1600 England.".
- catalog subject "History, Medieval England.".
- catalog subject "Leprosy England History.".
- catalog subject "Leprosy history England.".
- catalog subject "Literature and medicine England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and medicine England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and medicine England History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "Literature and medicine Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Medicine Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Medicine in Literature England.".
- catalog subject "Medicine in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR275.M4 G75 2004".
- catalog subject "Plague England History.".
- catalog subject "Plague Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Plague history England.".
- catalog subject "Plague in literature.".
- catalog subject "Syphilis England History.".
- catalog subject "Syphilis history England.".
- catalog subject "WZ 330 G857p 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. From Sophrosyne to sin -- 2. Leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis -- 3. Leprosy and spiritual sins in medieval literature -- 4. Plague as apocalypse in medieval literature -- 5. Learning to cope with disease -- 6. Leprosy and syphilis in early modern literature.".
- catalog title "Pestilence in Medieval and early modern English literature / Bryon Lee Grigsby.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".