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Author(s): Bryon Lee Grigsby
ISBN(s): 0415968224
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.05 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10:         0415762669
ISBN 13: 978-0415762663
Author:          Bryon Lee Grigsby

Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature examines three diseases–leprosy, bubonic plague, and syphilis–to show how doctors, priests, and literary authors from the Middle Ages 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.
 

Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature 1st Table of contents:

Chapter One
From Sophrosyne to Sin

Chapter Two
Leprosy, Bubonic Plague, and Syphilis

Chapter Three
Leprosy and Spiritual Sins in Medieval Literature

Chapter Four
Plague as Apocalypse in Medieval Literature

Chapter Five
Learning to Cope with Disease

Chapter Six
Leprosy and Syphilis in Early Modern Literature

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