Anton Maria ESPADALER

Original title: L’episodi dels leprosos al Romanç de Jaufré

Published in War and Disease in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Keywords: Leprosy, Medical Therapy, Occitan Literature, Sexual Disease.

The Occitan Roman of Jaufré offers the most complete description of a human being affected by leprosy in all medieval literature. From its behavior and treatment derives a medical knowledge, absent in pious texts, and it is observed that, while understanding leprosy as a Sexually Transmitted Disease, the author does not make any criticism of it.