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Images of Leprosy: Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art
Ort / Verlag
Pennsylvania State University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
From biblical times to the onset of the Black Death in the
fourteenth century, leprosy was considered the worst human
affliction, both medically and socially. Only fifty years ago,
leprosy, or Hansen's disease, was an incurable infectious illness,
and it still remains a grave global concern. Recently, leprosy has
generated attention in scholarly fields from medical science to the
visual arts. This interdisciplinary art-historical survey on lepra
and its visualization in sculpture, murals, stained glass, and
other media provides new information on the history of art,
medicine, religion, and European society. Christine M. Boeckl
maintains that the various terrifying aspects of the disease
dominated the visual narratives of historic and legendary figures
stricken with leprosy. For rulers, beggars, saints, and sinners,
the metaphor of leprosy becomes the background against which their
captivating stories are projected.