Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature

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ISBN: 9780415968225 | 0415968224
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/1/2003

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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.

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

(1)

Methodology: Social Constructionism

(1)

History of Scholarship

(1)

The Positivist Approach

(2)

The Social Construction of the Medieval Medical Community

(2)

Social Construction: Disciplinary Boundaries

(1)

Social Constructionism: Disease

(3)

Overview of Chapters

(4)

From Sophrosyne to Sin

(24)

Greco-Roman Medicine

(4)

The Christian Adoption of Medicine

(2)

Christ, Apostles and Priests as Doctors

(2)

Medicine as Part of Natural Philosophy

(2)

The Monastic Transmission and Use of Medicine

(7)

The Secularization of Medicine

(7)

Leprosy, Bubonic Plague, and Syphilis

(40)

Leprosy and the Seven Deadly Sins

(1)

History of Leprosy Scholarship

(4)

Theology's View of Leprosy

(7)

The Medical Community's Interpretation of Leprosy

(7)

Responding to the Plague

(2)

History of Bubonic Plague Scholarship

(4)

The Origin of Plague

(3)

Sexing Leprosy in the Modern Period

(1)

The Origin of Syphilis

(3)

Syphilis and Leprosy: An Interchange of Moral Associations

(9)

Leprosy and Spiritual Sins in Medieval Literature

(24)

The Pricke of Conscience and Gower's Mirrour de l'omme and Confessio Amantis

(5)

Geoffrey Chaucer's Summoner

(5)

Amis and Amiloun

(9)

Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid

(5)

Plague as Apocalypse in Medieval Literature

103

(24)

William Langland's Piers Plowman

103

(14)

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale

117

(5)

The York Cycle: Moses and Pharaoh

122

(2)

Conclusions

124

(3)

Learning to Cope with Disease

127

(30)

John Lydgate's Dietary and ``A Doctrine for Pestilence''

131

(7)

William Bullein's Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence

138

(19)

Leprosy and Syphilis in Early Modern Literature

157

(22)

Medieval Leprosy and Its Influence on Syphilis: Fracastoro, Bacon, and Spenser

158

(8)

Jonson, Shakespeare, and Ford

166

(13)

Conclusion

179

(6)

Notes

185

(4)

Works Cited

189

(8)

Index

197

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