Esteban Augusto GREIF
Between Byzantium and Outremer: considerations on leprosy in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
Entre Bizancio y Outremer: consideraciones sobre la lepra en el Reino Latino de Jerusalén
Published in Society and Culture in Portugal
Keywords: Keywords: Byzantium, Continuity, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Leper.
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10.pdfIn the last years, the comprehension and understanding of leprosy and the social place of the leper as a rejected and stigmatized subject from society during the Middle Ages, have change. In this way, had come to light a new interpretation that detached the integration of those who suffer this disease. Similarly, the view of the leprosarium as spaces of social segregation was revised. Besides, new investigations about the treatment of this disease in the world of the Eastern Mediterranean started to appear. However, the analysis of the circulation of knowledge and practices between the East and the West were not frequent. Thus, our proposal, it is located into this space and tries to comprehend which was the social treatment of leprosy and lepers from the byzantine world that impacted in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.