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1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages). |
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Series |
Medieval history and culture ; v. 23
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Medieval history and culture ; v. 23.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index. |
Contents |
Cover -- MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND CULTURE -- PESTILENCE IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE -- Series Editor Foreword -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- METHODOLOGY: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM -- HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP -- THE POSITIVIST APPROACH -- THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE MEDIEVAL MEDICAL COMMUNITY -- SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION: DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES -- SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM: DISEASE -- OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERS -- CHAPTER ONE -- From Sophrosyne to Sin -- GRECO-ROMAN MEDICINE -- THE CHRISTIAN ADOPTION OF MEDICINE -- CHRIST, APOSTLES AND PRIESTS AS DOCTORS -- MEDICINE AS PART OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY -- THE MONASTIC TRANSMISSION AND USE OF MEDICINE -- THE SECULARIZATION OF MEDICINE -- CHAPTER TWO -- Leprosy, Bubonic Plague, and Syphilis -- LEPROSY AND THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS -- HISTORY OF LEPROSY SCHOLARSHIP -- THEOLOGY'S VIEW OF LEPROSY -- THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY'S INTERPRETATION OF LEPROSY -- RESPONDING TO THE PLAGUE -- HISTORY OF BUBONIC PLAGUE SCHOLARSHIP -- THE ORIGIN OF PLAGUE -- SEXING LEPROSY IN THE MODERN PERIOD -- THE ORIGIN OF SYPHILIS -- SYPHILIS AND LEPROSY: AN INTERCHANGE OF MORAL ASSOCIATIONS -- CHAPTER THREE -- Leprosy and Spiritual Sins in Medieval Literature -- THE PRICKE OF CONSCIENCE AND GOWER'S MIRROUR DE L'OMME AND CONFESSIO AMANTIS -- GEOFFREY CHAUCER'S SUMMONER -- AMIS AND AMILOUN -- ROBERT HENRYSON'S TESTAMENT OF CRESSEID -- CHAPTER FOUR -- Plague as Apocalypse in Medieval Literature -- WILLIAM LANGLAND'S PIERS PLOWMAN -- GEOFFREY CHAUCER'S THE PARDONER'S TALE -- THE YORK CYCLE: MOSES AND PHARAOH -- CONCLUSIONS -- CHAPTER FIVE -- Learning to Cope with Disease -- JOHN LYDGATE'S DIETARY AND "A DOCTRINE FOR PESTILENCE" -- WILLIAM BULLEIN'S DIALOGUE AGAINST THE FEVER PESTILENCE -- CHAPTER SIX -- Leprosy and Syphilis in Early Modern Literature -- MEDIEVAL LEPROSY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON SYPHILIS: FRACASTORO, BACON, AND SPENSER -- JONSON, SHAKESPEARE, AND FORD -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. |
Summary |
This book examines three diseases - leprosy, bubonic plague and syphillis - to show how doctors, priests and authors in the Middle Ages saw certain illnesses through a moral filter: as punishment from God. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine in literature. |
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Literature and medicine. |
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England. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
17th century |
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Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Chronological Term |
16th century |
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Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- To 1500.
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Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Epidemics -- Great Britain -- History.
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Epidemics. |
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Great Britain. |
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Diseases -- Great Britain -- History.
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Diseases. |
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Medicine -- Great Britain -- History.
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Medicine. |
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Plague -- Great Britain -- History.
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Plague. |
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Diseases in literature.
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Diseases in literature. |
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Plague in literature.
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Plague in literature. |
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Medicine in Literature. |
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History, Early Modern 1451-1600. |
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History, Medieval. |
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Leprosy -- history. |
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Plague -- history. |
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Syphilis -- history. |
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England. |
Chronological Term |
To 1700 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Grigsby, Bryon Lee. Pestilence in Medieval and early modern English literature. New York : Routledge, 2004 (DLC) 2003014369 |
ISBN |
0203508858 (electronic book) |
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9780203508855 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0203508858 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0415968224 (Cloth) |
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