People with leprosy (Hansen’s disease) during the Middle Ages
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
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
To us today, leprosy, like the plague, is undoubtedly symbolic of the Middle Ages – but this paper will conclude by considering the extent to which leprosy was viewed by contemporaries as the disease afflicting their society.
Simplifying Access: Metadata for Medieval Disability Studies
Simplifying Access: Metadata for Medieval Disability Studies Guerra, Francesca (University of California, Santa Cruz) PNLA Quarterly, Volume 74, no. 2 (Winter 2010) Abstract…
Leprosy, Miracles, and Morality in Amis and Amiloun
Leprosy, Miracles, and Morality in Amis and Amiloun Yoon, Ju Ok (Sogang University) Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Volume 18 No. 1 (2010)…