Walking corpses : leprosy in Byzantium and the medieval West /
Leprosy has afflicted humans for thousands of years. It wasn't until the twelfth century, however, that the dreaded disease entered the collective psyche of Western society, thanks to a frightening epidemic that ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutio...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2014.
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