05538cam a2200913Ki 4500 ocn878405990 OCoLC 20200709060019.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 140428s2014 nyu ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T YDXCP E7B JSTOR OCLCF IDEBK EBLCP OCLCQ P@U YDX OCLCQ OCLCO AGLDB OCLCQ FVL OCLCQ IOG OCLCO DEGRU OCLCO OCLCA 922998488 966763021 968914988 971583872 971913276 972121176 979753473 992886350 1010740827 9780801470776 (electronic bk.) 0801470773 (electronic bk.) 9780801451355 0801451353 40023526040 10.7591/9780801470776 doi 671300 (N$T) (OCoLC)878405990 (OCoLC)922998488 (OCoLC)966763021 (OCoLC)968914988 (OCoLC)971583872 (OCoLC)971913276 (OCoLC)972121176 (OCoLC)979753473 (OCoLC)992886350 (OCoLC)1010740827 22573/ctt592rrc JSTOR mm----- e------ RC154.3 .M55 2014eb 2014 F-014 WC 335 HEA 039000 bisacsh MED 014000 bisacsh MED 022000 bisacsh MED 112000 bisacsh MED 045000 bisacsh MED039000 bisacsh HIS037010 bisacsh REL015000 bisacsh 616.99/8009495 23 MAIN Miller, Timothy S., 1945- author. Walking corpses : leprosy in Byzantium and the medieval West / Timothy S. Miller and John W. Nesbitt. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014. 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Includes bibliographical references and index. The ancient world -- Leprosy in the Byzantine Empire -- Byzantine medicine -- Byzantine leprosaria -- Leprosy in the Latin West -- Leprosaria in the West -- The Knights of Lazarus. Print version record. Leprosy has afflicted humans for thousands of years. It wasn’t until the twelfth century, however, that the dreaded disease entered the collective psyche of Western society, thanks to a frightening epidemic that ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosaria to treat the rapidly expanding number of victims. As important as these events were, Timothy Miller and John Nesbitt remind us that the history of leprosy in the West is incomplete without also considering the Byzantine Empire, which confronted leprosy and its effects well before the Latin West. In Walking Corpses, they offer the first account of medieval leprosy that integrates the history of East and West.In their informative and engaging account, Miller and Nesbitt challenge a number of misperceptions and myths about medieval attitudes toward leprosy (known today as Hansen’s disease). They argue that ethical writings from the Byzantine world and from Catholic Europe never branded leprosy as punishment for sin; rather, theologians and moralists saw the disease as a mark of God’s favor on those chosen for heaven. The stimulus to ban lepers from society and ultimately to persecute them came not from Christian influence but from Germanic customary law. Leprosaria were not prisons to punish lepers but were centers of care to offer them support; some even provided both male and female residents the opportunity to govern their own communities under a form of written constitution. Informed by recent bioarchaeological research that has vastly expanded knowledge of the disease and its treatment by medieval society, Walking Corpses also includes three key Greek texts regarding leprosy (one of which has never been translated into English before). In English. Master record variable field(s) change: 650 Leprosy Byzantine Empire History To 1500. Leprosy Europe History To 1500. HEALTH & FITNESS Diseases General. bisacsh MEDICAL Clinical Medicine. bisacsh MEDICAL Diseases. bisacsh MEDICAL Evidence-Based Medicine. bisacsh MEDICAL Internal Medicine. bisacsh Leprosy. fast (OCoLC)fst00996325 Byzantine Empire. fast (OCoLC)fst01209292 Europe. fast (OCoLC)fst01245064 Leprosy history. History, Medieval. Byzantium. Europe. To 1500 fast Electronic books. History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Nesbitt, John W., author. Print version: Miller, Timothy S., 1945- Walking corpses 9780801451355 (DLC) 2013030660 (OCoLC)854956981 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=671300 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3138599 ebrary EBRY ebr10864006 EBSCOhost EBSC 671300 ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection IDEB cis30391394 Project MUSE MUSE muse51972 YBP Library Services YANK 11787484 De Gruyter DEGR 9780801470776 92 N$T 54182 54182