Elma Brenner - Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean

Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages

SOCIAL HISTORIES OF MEDICINE

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Social Histories of Medicine is concerned with all aspects of health, illness and medicine, from prehistory to the present, in every part of the world. The series covers the circumstances that promote health or illness, the ways in which people experience and explain such conditions, and what, practically, they do about them. Practitioners of all approaches to health and healing come within its scope, as do their ideas, beliefs and practices, and the social, economic and cultural contexts in which they operate. Methodologically, the series welcomes relevant studies in social, economic, cultural and intellectual history, as well as approaches derived from other disciplines in the arts, sciences, social sciences and humanities. The series is a collaboration between Manchester University Press and the Society for the Social History of Medicine.

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Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages

From England to the Mediterranean

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Elma Brenner and Franois-Olivier Touati

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Lucy Barnhouse, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Arkansas State University, USA. Her research focuses on the intersections between legal, religious and medical history in late medieval Germany. Her prospective monograph, Houses of God, Places for the Sick, examines the place of hospitals in the religious and social networks of late medieval cities. She has made an edition and translation of leprosy examination letters for the Medieval Disability Sourcebook, and has been a podcaster with Footnoting History, on topics including womens history and medical history, since 2013.

Elma Brenner, Ph.D., L.M.S., is a Research Development Specialist at Wellcome Collection, London. She is also an associate member of the Centre de recherches archologiques et historiques anciennes et mdivales at the University of Caen, France (UMR 6273 CNRS). Her research explores intersections between health and religious culture in medieval France and England. Among her publications are Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture (co-edited with Meredith Cohen and Mary Franklin-Brown, 2013), Society and Culture in Medieval Rouen, 9111300 (co-edited with Leonie V. Hicks, 2013) and Leprosy and Charity in Medieval Rouen (2015).

Luke Demaitre, Ph.D., was Visiting Professor at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, until 2017. He has written on a range of medical notions, norms and practices in Europe before 1600, and his current study focuses on responses to striking diseases. His major publications include Leprosy in Premodern Medicine: A Malady of the Whole Body (2007) and Medieval Medicine: The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe (2013). His most recent publication, Official objectives of the Visitatio leprosorum: Ambiguity, ambivalence, and variance, appeared in Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe (2019, open access).

Rafal Hyacinthe, Ph.D. (Universit Paris I, Panthon-Sorbonne), is currently in charge of the hospitaller archives in the Archives dpartementales de lHrault in Montpellier, France. His research is focused on the Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, from the Middle Ages up to the modern period. Further studies concern charity in medieval southern Italy (Ecole franaise de Rome), as well as the cult of Saint Lazarus in the East and the West (Centre national de la recherche scientifique). Along with articles and contributions in edited volumes on the history of the crusades, he has published LOrdre de Saint-Lazare de Jrusalem au Moyen Age (2003).

Damien Jeanne, Ph.D., is a lecturer at the universities of Caen and Le Havre, France. He is an associate member of the Centre de recherches archologiques et historiques anciennes et mdivales at the University of Caen (UMR 6273 CNRS). His research addresses the history and place of diseases in western medieval society. He is co-editor of Purifier, soigner ou gurir? Maladies et lieux religieux de la Mditerrane antique la Normandie mdivale (2020). Other recent publications include Lpre humiliante, lpre difiante: Hamon de Savigny, novice rput lpreux au service des lpreux, in B. Galbrun and V. Gazeau (eds), LAbbaye de Savigny (11122012) (2019); and Bndiction ou maldiction? Maladies et malades sous le regard des bndictins (XIeXIIe sicle), in P. Bauduin, G. Combalbert, A. Dubois, B. Garnier and C. Maneuvrier (eds),