Book ID: CBB001201856

Images of Leprosy: Disease, Religion and Politics in European Art (2011)

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Boeckl, Christine M. (Author)


Truman State University Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xiv + 234 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

From biblical times to the onset of the Black Death in the fourteenth century, leprosy was considered the worst human affliction, both medically and socially. Only fifty years ago, leprosy, or Hansen s disease, was an incurable infectious illness, and still remains a grave global concern. Recently, leprosy has generated attention in scholarly fields from medical science to the visual arts. This interdisciplinary art-historical survey on lepra and its visualization in sculpture, murals, stained glass, and other media provides new information on the history of art, medicine, religion, and European society. Christine M. Boeckl maintains that the various terrifying aspects of the disease dominated the visual narratives of historic and legendary figures stricken with leprosy. For rulers, beggars, saints, and sinners the metaphor of leprosy becomes the background against which their captivating stories are projected.

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Authors & Contributors
Ballestriero, Roberta
Papparella, Franca C.
Geddes da Filicaia, Marco
Silvano, Giovanni
Burke, Owen
Maria Paola Zanoboni
Concepts
Medicine and society
Disease and diseases
Medicine and religion
Medicine
Public health
Infectious diseases
Time Periods
Early modern
Medieval
Renaissance
Ancient
Modern
19th century
Places
Europe
England
Italy
Calabria
Nuremberg (Germany)
Scotland
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