Walking Corpses

by Timothy S. Miller and John W. Nesbitt

Book Overview

In Walking Corpses, Timothy S. Miller and John W. Nesbitt contextualize reactions to leprosy in medieval Western Europe by tracing its history in Late Antique Byzantium, which had been confronting leprosy and its effects for centuries.

Integrating developments in both the Latin West and the Greek East, Walking Corpses challenges a number of misperceptions about attitudes toward the disease, including that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501770837
• ISBN13: 9781501770838
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"