{"product_id":"walking-corpses-timothy-s-miller-9781501770838","title":"Walking Corpses","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalking Corpses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntegrating developments in both the Latin West and the Greek East, \u003ci\u003eWalking Corpses\u003c\/i\u003e challenges a number of misperceptions about attitudes toward the disease, including that theologians branded leprosy as punishment for sin (rather, it was seen as a mark of God's favor); that Christian teaching encouraged bans on the afflicted from society (in actuality, it was Germanic customary law); or that leprosariums were prisons (instead, they were centers of care, many of them self-governing). Informed by extensive archival research and recent bioarchaeology, \u003ci\u003eWalking Corpses\u003c\/i\u003e also includes new translations of three Greek texts regarding leprosy, while a new preface to the paperback edition updates the historiography on medieval perceptions and treatments of leprosy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy S. Miller, John W. Nesbitt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501770837\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501770838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d","brand":"Timothy S. Miller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44321387610367,"sku":"9781501770838","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a773bd9-2c23-40b2-a5f8-fe8cbdfec802.jpg?v=1696330631","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/walking-corpses-timothy-s-miller-9781501770838","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}