On the margins of a minority : leprosy, madness, and disability among the Jews of medieval Europe / Ephraim Shoham-Steiner ; translated by Haim Watzman.

  • Shoham-Steiner, Ephraim
Date:
2014
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Ḥarigim be-ʻal korḥam. English

Description

Drawing on material from the late-tenth- to fifteenth-centuries, examines how Jews further marginalized by illness or disability were regarded by both Christian and Jewish communities.

Publication/Creation

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2014.

Physical description

xiii, 275 pages ; 24 cm

Edition

English-language edition.

Notes

Translated from Hebrew.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-263) and index.

Contents

Leprosy as a concept -- Social attitudes toward lepers -- What is madness? -- Social attitudes toward the insane -- The physically impaired -- Disability in sacred and private space.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BFH.3.AA2
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780814339312
  • 081433931X