Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages

Elma Brenner is Research Development Specialist (Medieval and Early Modern) at Wellcome Collection François-Olivier Touati is Professor at the Université François Rabelais (Tours) -- .

Introduction – Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati

Part I: Approaching leprosy and identity
1 Reflections on the bioarchaeology of leprosy and identity, past and present – Charlotte Roberts
2 Lepers and leprosy: connections between East and West in the Middle Ages – François-Olivier Touati
3 The disease and the sacred: the leper as a scapegoat in England and Normandy (eleventh–twelfth centuries) – Damien Jeanne

Part II: Within the leprosy hospital: between segregation and integration
4 ‘A mighty force in the ranks of Christ’s army’: intercession and integration in the medieval English leper hospital – Carole Rawcliffe
5 Saint Mary Magdalen, Winchester: the archaeology and history of an English leprosarium and almshouse – Simon Roffey
6 Diet as a marker of identity in the leprosy hospitals of medieval northern France – Elma Brenner

Part III: Beyond the leprosy hospital: the language of poverty and charity
7 Good people, poor sick: the social identities of lepers in the late medieval Rhineland – Lucy Barnhouse
8 The clapper as 'vox miselli': new perspectives on iconography – Luke Demaitre

Part IV: Religious and social identities
9 Kissing lepers: Saint Francis and the treatment of lepers in the central Middle Ages – Courtney A. Krolikoski
10 From pilgrim to knight, from monk to bishop: the distorted identities of leprosy within the Order of Saint Lazarus – Rafaël Hyacinthe
11 Connotation and denotation: the construction of the leper in Narbonne and Siena before the plague – Anna M. Peterson

Part V: Post-medieval perspectives
12 ‘Our loathsome ancestors’: reinventing medieval leprosy for the modern world, 1850–1950 – Kathleen Vongsathorn and Magnus Vollset

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