Medieval leprosy
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Resumo Este estudo tem por objetivo dar a conhecer o modo como o Homem medieval enfrentou os desafios que se colocavam à sua saúde e bem-estar na cidade e região de Coimbra, nos finais da Idade Média. Começamos por descrever alguns dos... more
The cagots were a poorly understood marginalised group found on both sides of the western Pyrenees. They started to become prominent from the thirteenth century before largely disappearing in the twentieth century. This paper describes a... more
Im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit war die Lepra eine weit verbreitete Krankheit. Leprosorien dienten zur speziellen Unterbringung der Leprakranken. In den Rheinlanden können von der ersten urkundlichen Erwähnung eines Leprosoriums... more
This was published online as Monica H. Green, “Climate and Disease in Medieval Eurasia,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, ed. David Ludden (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.6.... more
Este libro es un ejercicio de síntesis histórica que analiza las instituciones hospitalarias de todo Aragón durante cuatrocientos años. Para ello ha utilizado un corpus documental heterogéneo de variados archivos estatales, provinciales,... more
A middle adult male skeleton from the medieval period , C58, excavated from the cemetery of the St James and St Mary Magdalene Hospital in Chichester has been analysed osteologically and palaeopathologically. C58 exhibits a congenital... more
The turn of the fourteenth century was to find the rural population in
Op een steenworp afstand van de stadsmuren van het middeleeuwse Haarlem lag een klein ziekenhuisje voor de leprozen van de stad. Deze leprozerie ontstond in de late middeleeuwen, tijdens de periode van ur- banisatie en voorspoed in het... more
Este artigo tem por objetivo demonstrar de que modo a sociedade conimbricense praticou a primeira das obras de misericórdia corporais: Dar de comer a quem tem fome”. Pretendemos apresentar como se proveu o sustento alimentar dos pobres e... more
Plague and leprosy have left deep traces in the collective memory of Central Europe more than other diseases and epidemics. The paper examines how medieval and early modern societies reacted to the threat of the epidemics and which... more
This study offers a corrected interpretation of a widely disseminated image, said to depict plague at the time of the Black Death but actually a representation of leprosy. It includes a full transcription and translation of the section of... more
http://www.public.asu.edu/~mhgreen/healthanddisease2012/index.html “Health and Disease in the Middle Ages” was a five-week Seminar for College and University Teachers held June 24-July 28, 2012, in London, England. Based at the Wellcome... more
Jeanne D., Chapelain de Seréville-Niel C., Blondiau J., Truc M.-C. et al. 2021, « Les soins des lépreux au Moyen Âge : approche transdisciplinaire de la fouille à l’histoire du site de Saint-Thomas d’Aizier (XIIe-XVIe s.) », in Kacki S.,... more
In 2009, an archaeological intervention in the Valle da Gafaria (Lagos, Portugal) allowed the excavation of part of a leprosarium and an associated necropolis (15the17th centuries). The individuals recovered were buried directly in the... more
William of Saint-Pathus’ hagiography of Saint Louis, written approximately 30 years after his death, used as its source the documents from the canonisation commission. The fragments of documents that remain from the commission suggest... more
Journal of Jewish Identities 9 (2) July 2016 pp. 202-203
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Abstracts in French, English, and German.
In April 2021 the online workshop Methodius von Olympus’ Schrift De lepra als Exempel für die Gesamtedition des Corpus Methodianum – Interdisziplinäre Zugänge was held at the University of Jena. The Greek text of the De lepra is only... more
Este artigo tem como objetivo compreender algumas das componentes que caracterizaram a Casa de São Lázaro de Lisboa, uma instituição destinada a acolher indivíduos que padeciam de lepra, no alvorecer da modernidade. Focaremos, em primeiro... more
Humans are constantly at risk of bone fractures, not only when threatened by personal violence, but also by the challenge of daily living. Because fractures are a cross-cultural phenomenon and are one of the more commonly observed... more
Das Ziel der Untersuchung ist die Erfassung aller Leprosorien in den Rheinlanden und die Analyse der sich vom Mittelalter bis in die frühe Neuzeit erstreckenden Entwicklungslinien. Als Leprosorien oder Siechenhäuser werden hierbei alle... more