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Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature (Paperback)
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Pestilence in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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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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