Description:
Timothy Miller and John Nesbitt remind us that the history of leprosy in the West is incomplete without considering the Byzantine Empire, which confronted leprosy and its effects well before the Latin West.
Brief description: Timothy S. Miller is Professor of History at Salisbury University. He is the author of The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire and The Orphans of Byzantium, and coeditor of Peace and War in the Byzantine Empire.
Review Quotes:
'Wretched corpses, ' 'moving cadavers, ' 'creeping bodies.' Fourth-century Byzantine bishops used these phrases to describe men and women afflicted with leprosy. Timothy S. Miller and John W. Nesbitt invite readers to reinterpret this dramatic language in their book, Walking Corpses, a useful comparative study of religious, medical, and legal reactions to leprosy in Byzantium and the medieval Latin West.
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