Walking Corpses : : Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West / / John W. Nesbitt, Timothy S. Miller.
In Walking Corpses, Timothy W. Miller and John S. Nesbitt contextualize reactions to leprosy in medieval western Europe by tracing its history in Late Antique Byzantium, which had been confronting leprosy and its effects for centuries. Integrating developments in both the Latin west and the Greek ea...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Edition: | with a new preface |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (282 p.) :; 5 b&w halftones, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Ancient World
- Chapter 2 Leprosy in the Byzantine Empire
- Chapter 3 Byzantine Medicine
- Chapter 4 Byzantine Leprosariums
- Chapter 5 Leprosy in the Latin West
- Chapter 6 Leprosariums in the Latin West
- Chapter 7 The Knights of Lazarus
- Conclusion
- Appendixes
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index