Images of Leprosy: Disease, Religion, and Politics in European Art

by Christine M. Boeckl

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935503154
• ISBN13: 9781935503156
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"