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Author Grigsby, Bryon Lee.

Title Pestilence in Medieval and early modern English literature / Bryon Lee Grigsby.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages).
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Series Medieval history and culture ; v. 23
Medieval history and culture ; v. 23.
Bibliography 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.
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Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
Medicine in literature.
Medicine in literature.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Literature and medicine.
England.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Epidemics -- Great Britain -- History.
Epidemics.
Great Britain.
Diseases -- Great Britain -- History.
Diseases.
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History.
Medicine.
Plague -- Great Britain -- History.
Plague.
Diseases in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Plague in literature.
Plague in literature.
Medicine in Literature.
History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
History, Medieval.
Leprosy -- history.
Plague -- history.
Syphilis -- history.
England.
Chronological Term To 1700
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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)
9780203508855 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
0203508858 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader)
0415968224 (Cloth)