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

Descript 1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages) Series Medieval history and culture ; v. 23 Medieval history and culture ; v. 23. Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index. Contents 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. Summary 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. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism. Medicine in literature. English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 17th century. Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 16th century. Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- To 1500. Epidemics -- Great Britain -- History. Diseases -- Great Britain -- History. Medicine -- Great Britain -- History. Plague -- Great Britain -- History. Diseases in literature. Plague in literature. Medicine, Medieval. Medicine in Literature Syphilis -- history Leprosy -- history Plague -- history History, Early Modern 1451-1600 History, Medieval England LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism. Medicine in literature. English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History. Epidemics -- Great Britain -- History. Diseases -- Great Britain -- History. Medicine -- Great Britain -- History. Plague -- Great Britain -- History. Diseases in literature. Plague in literature. Medicine in Literature -- England. History of Medicine, Early Modern -- England. History of Medicine, Medieval -- England. Leprosy -- England. -- History. Plague -- England. -- History. Syphilis -- England. -- History. Medicine, Medieval. (OCoLC)fst01015277 Diseases. (OCoLC)fst00895158 Diseases in literature. (OCoLC)fst00895210 English literature -- Early modern. (OCoLC)fst01710960 English literature -- Middle English. (OCoLC)fst01710961 Epidemics. (OCoLC)fst00914079 Literature and medicine. (OCoLC)fst01000080 Medicine. (OCoLC)fst01014893 Medicine in literature. (OCoLC)fst01015167 Plague. (OCoLC)fst01065045 Plague in literature. (OCoLC)fst01065063 England. (OCoLC)fst01219920 Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623 To 1700 ISBN 0203508858 (electronic bk.) 9780203508855 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) 0203508858 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) 9781135883836 (EPUB) 1135883831 (EPUB) 9786610049851 6610049858 9780415968225 0415968224 0415968224 (Cloth)