Pestilence in Medieval and early modern English literature

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Pestilence in Medieval and early modern English literature
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Bryon Lee Grigsby
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Language
eng
Summary
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
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DLC
Dewey number
820.9/3561
Index
index present
LC call number
PR275.M4
LC item number
G75 2004
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Medieval history and culture
Series volume
v. 23

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