Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West by Timothy S. Miller

Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West

Timothy S. Miller

264 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction health history challenging informative slow-paced
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Leprosy has afflicted humans for thousands of years. It wasn't until the twelfth century, however, that the dreaded disease entered the collective psyche of Western society, thanks to a frightening epidemic that ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church...

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