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Author Grigsby, Bryon Lee

Title Pestilence in Medieval and early modern English literature / Bryon Lee Grigsby
Published New York : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages)
Series Medieval history and culture ; v. 23
Medieval history and culture ; v. 23.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index
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Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
Medicine in literature.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 17th century
Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 16th century
Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- To 1500
Epidemics -- Great Britain -- History
Diseases -- Great Britain -- History
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History
Plague -- Great Britain -- History
Diseases in literature.
Plague in literature.
Medicine, Medieval.
Medicine in Literature
Syphilis -- history
Leprosy -- history
Plague -- history
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
History, Medieval
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
Medicine in literature.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History.
Epidemics -- Great Britain -- History.
Diseases -- Great Britain -- History.
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History.
Plague -- Great Britain -- History.
Diseases in literature.
Plague in literature.
Medicine in Literature -- England.
History of Medicine, Early Modern -- England.
History of Medicine, Medieval -- England.
Leprosy -- England. -- History.
Plague -- England. -- History.
Syphilis -- England. -- History.
Medicine, Medieval
Diseases
Diseases in literature
English literature -- Early modern
English literature -- Middle English
Epidemics
Literature and medicine
Medicine
Medicine in literature
Plague
Plague in literature
SUBJECT England
Subject England
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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