Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Medieval History and Culture
ISBN-10
0415968224
ISBN-13
9780415968225
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 1st, 2003
Print length
220 Pages
Weight
570 grams
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medievalHistory of ideas
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By examining different readings of specific illnesses, this study 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 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.
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