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Author:   Byron Lee Grigsby
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.294kg
ISBN:  

9780415762663

ISBN 10:   0415762669
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   09 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 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-Theology's View of Leprosy--The Medical Community's Interpretation of Leprosy--Responding to the 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 --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 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 Bibliography Index

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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.

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