Footnoting History
Lepers and Leprosy in the 13th Century
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 0:11:53
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Sinopsis
(Lucy) Reactions to medieval lepers were often extreme. Medieval romance-writers depict them as not only disease-ridden but filthy, and morally suspect to boot. Saints, on the other hand, ran around kissing them. More ordinary people just asked lepers to pray for them. Why? And if you lived in thirteenth-century Chartres, why shouldn't you eat dinner with the leper next door?