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050	0	4	_aRC154 _b.W355 2014
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aMiller, Timothy S., _d1945- _e1
245	1	0	_aWalking corpses : _bleprosy in Byzantium and the medieval West / _cTimothy S. Miller and John W. Nesbitt.
260			_aIthaca : _bCornell University Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aThe ancient world -- _tLeprosy in the Byzantine Empire -- _tByzantine medicine -- _tByzantine leprosaria -- _tLeprosy in the Latin West -- _tLeprosaria in the West -- _tThe Knights of Lazarus.
520	0		_aLeprosy 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).
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650		0	_aLeprosy _zByzantine Empire _xHistory _yTo 1500.
650		0	_aLeprosy _zEurope _xHistory _yTo 1500.
650		0	_aMedicine, Medieval.
650	1	2	_aLeprosy _xhistory
650	2	2	_aHistory, Medieval
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aNesbitt, John W., _e1
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=671300&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell