There has always been some doubt as to whether Bruce, who died in 1329, did suffer from leprosy.
Anglo-Saxon skeleton shows leprosy may have spread to Britain from Scandinavia
May 14, 2015 By
The bones of the man, probably in his 20s, show changes consistent with leprosy, such as narrowing of the toe bones and damage to the joints, suggesting a very early British case.
Make-Up and Medicine in the Middle Ages
January 13, 2015 By
A look at cosmetics and make-up in the Middle Ages.
Prevalence of Maxillary Sinusitis in Leprous Individuals from a Medieval Leprosy Hospital
February 15, 2014 By
An investigation into maxillary sinusitis in the remains of individuals from the medieval hospital of St. James and St. Mary Magdalene, Chichester, England, offered an opportunity to study the possible relationship between this condition and leprosy in an archeological population.
Sickness and Sin: Medicine, Epidemics and Heresy in the Middle Ages
September 28, 2013 By
Disease was more common, as already unsanitary populations grew more crowded, culminating with the devastating Black Death. With mostly Church chronicles telling the story, and a sense of religion underlying everyday life, comparisons were bound to be drawn between plagues and unruly dissent. On the one hand sickness of the body and the other a corruption of the mind.
Impregnable friendship : locating desire in the middle English ‘Amis and Amiloun’
July 24, 2013 By
Scholarship on Amis and Amiloun has generally been divided into two critical schools. The majority of critics have read the work as an exemplar of perfect friendship, overlooking (or ignoring) any trace of homoeroticism, citing the possibility itself as anachronistic, or explaining away its presence by offering historical or theoretical justification for intimacy among medieval men.
Scientific research reveals insights into medieval leprosy
June 14, 2013 By
Why was there a sudden drop in the incidence of leprosy at the end of the Middle Ages?
Social Deviancy: A Medieval Approach
October 10, 2012 By
Why bother with the weakest members of society by allocating substantial resources for keeping them alive and well in designated spaces?
The remarkable Baldwin IV: leper and king of Jerusalem
October 10, 2012 By
Medieval teen king, precocious politician, and successful battlefield commander, Baldwin IV not only surmounted disabling neurological impairment but challenged the stigma of leprosy, remarkably continuing to rule until his premature death aged twenty-three.
Catholic, Crusader, Leper and King: The Life of Baldwin IV and the Triumph of the Cross
September 17, 2012 By
Baldwin IV was born in Jerusalem of King Amalric and Queen Agnes of Courtney in 1161. Intellectually
and physically gifted as a boy, he seemed well equipped to inherit the Crusader kingdom.
The Lost Leprosy Hospitals Of London: Leprosia
September 1, 2012 By
By focusing upon the institutional provision made available for victims of leprosy in London between 1100 and 1500, we can explore the complexity of reactions to a disease that might be regarded as either a punishment for sin or a mark of divine favour.
The Leprous Christ and the Christ-like Leper: The Leprous Body as an Intermediary to the Body of Christ in Late Medieval Art and Society
August 14, 2012 By
I will argue that the leprous body was an intermediary to the body of Christ in the mind of late medieval viewers.
The Medievalist and the Microbiologist: How Plague and Leprosy Have Opened Up New Perspectives on the History of Health
July 7, 2012 By
Monica Green, known as ‘the foremost authority on medicine in the Middle Ages,’ examines how her field has changed in recent years.
Hospitals and leper houses in the Latin west during the Middle Ages
June 12, 2012 By
Audio podcast of a lecture by John Hine Mundy
Diseases as causes of divorce in Byzantium
February 5, 2012 By
Τhe purpose of this study is to describe the diseases for which divorce could be issued if one of the spouses wanted, in Byzantine times.
The Saints of Epilepsy
February 5, 2012 By
It will be seen below that many of the legendary happenings on which belief in the curative powers of saints was based were ridiculously improbable or impossible.
People with leprosy (Hansen’s disease) during the Middle Ages
December 31, 2011 By
Leprosy or Hansen’s Disease represented a major social, moral, and health concern during the Middle Ages. Few diseases have evoked the social responses that leprosy did during the Middle Ages
Symposium on The Social Stigma of Disease: The Archaeology and Bioarchaeology of Leprosy
December 2, 2011 By
This symposium explores the social stigmatization of disease by considering the long-term history of leprosy: from the origins of the pathogen Mycobacterium leprae to the foundation of leprosaria in late medieval Europe to the creation of leper colonies in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Leprosy and Identity in Medieval Rouen
May 4, 2011 By
Simplifying Access: Metadata for Medieval Disability Studies
February 28, 2011 By
Simplifying Access: Metadata for Medieval Disability Studies Guerra, Francesca (University of California, Santa Cruz) PNLA Quarterly, Volume 74, no. 2 (Winter 2010) Abstract In December, 2006, the University of York hosted the first conference devoted to the new field of medieval disability studies (Baswell, 2006, n. p.). The conference, “Historicising Disability: The Middle Ages and […]
Leprosy, Miracles, and Morality in Amis and Amiloun
January 16, 2011 By
Leprosy, Miracles, and Morality in Amis and Amiloun Yoon, Ju Ok (Sogang University) Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 18 No. 1 (2010) Abstract Scholarship of the fourteenth-century Middle English romance Amis and Amiloun has been divided in its interpretations of the implications of Amiloun’s leprosy and the supernatural elements, including the two miracles—Amiloun’s healing […]
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