Pestilence in Medieval and early modern English literature
This book examines three diseases - leprosy, bubonic plague and syphillis - to show how doctors, priests and authors in the Middle Ages saw certain illnesses through a moral filter: as punishment from God.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge
2004.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Medieval history and culture ; v. 23. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35537334*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND CULTURE
- PESTILENCE IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE
- Series Editor Foreword
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- METHODOLOGY: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
- HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP
- THE POSITIVIST APPROACH
- THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE MEDIEVAL MEDICAL COMMUNITY
- SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION: DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES
- SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM: DISEASE
- OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERS
- 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
- HISTORY OF LEPROSY SCHOLARSHIP
- THEOLOGY'S VIEW OF LEPROSY
- THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY'S INTERPRETATION OF LEPROSY
- RESPONDING TO THE PLAGUE
- HISTORY OF BUBONIC PLAGUE SCHOLARSHIP
- THE ORIGIN OF 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
- GEOFFREY CHAUCER'S SUMMONER
- 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
- CONCLUSIONS
- 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
- Works Cited
- Index.
