Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
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Chaucer's Summoner
Chaucer’s Summoner
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Confessio Amantis
contagion and sin
disease and morality in English literature
doctors
early modern health beliefs
epidemic disease history
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False Oaths
gilbertus
Gower's Confessio Amantis
Gower’s Confessio Amantis
Greco Roman Medicine
Guy De Chauliac
Medical Manuscripts
Medieval Doctors
Medieval Medicine
Medieval Science
medieval theology
Menippean Satire
Moral Associations
moral medicine
Mystis Blake
Pardoner's Tale
Pardoner’s Tale
Penitential Literature
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Plague Discourse
Poison Damsel
Pope Honorius III
Proper Social Place
religious interpretations of illness
sins
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Spiritual Sin
Spital House
Venereal Syphilis
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Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415968225
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature examines three diseases--leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis--to show how doctors, priests, and literary authors from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance interpreted certain illnesses through a moral filter. Lacking knowledge about the transmission of contagious diseases, doctors and priests saw epidemic diseases as a punishment sent by God for human transgression. Accordingly, their job was to properly read sickness in relation to the sin. By examining different readings of specific illnesses, this book shows how the social construction of epidemic diseases formed a kind of narrative wherein man attempts to take the control of the disease out of God's hands by connecting epidemic diseases to the sins of carnality.
Byron Lee Grigsby is Assistant Professor of English at Centenary College in New Jersey. He is the President and General Editor of Medica: The Journal for the Study ofHealth and Healing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance and has published articles in Modern Language Association's Teaching Medicine and Literature, in Essays in MedievalStudies, and is the co-editor with Steve Harris of Misconceptions of the Middle Ages.
