Pestilence in Medieval and early modern English literature / Bryon Lee Grigsby.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.

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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.

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.

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