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Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature

Byron Lee Grigsby
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      This text examines three diseases - leprosy, bubonic plague and syphillis - to show how doctors, priests and literary authors from the Middle Ages and 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Byron Lee Grigsby EAN: 9780415968225 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 570 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2003-12-01 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, MEDICAL / History WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      English, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, History of ideas

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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.
      This text examines three diseases - leprosy, bubonic plague and syphillis - to show how doctors, priests and literary authors from the Middle Ages and 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Byron Lee Grigsby EAN: 9780415968225 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 570 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2003-12-01 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, MEDICAL / History WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      English, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, History of ideas

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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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