NESBITT, John W.

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2014 CE

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Walking corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West.

MILLER, Timothy S.

NESBITT, John W.

Leprosy first became known to Europeans during the 12th century when a frightening epidemic ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosariums to treat the rapidl…

Medieval
Plagues & Epidemics