Walking Corpses : : Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West / / John W. Nesbitt, Timothy S. Miller.
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 institutio...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 5 halftones, 1 map |
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