Unclean!: The Medieval Leper

As an incurable disease that subjected its victims to terrible disfigurement, leprosy was greatly feared in the Middle Ages. From this it is easy to assume that lepers were treated as outcasts, shunned wherever they went. The reality is much more complex: in the words of one scholar, "lepers occupied a highly charged and profoundly ambiguous position in medieval society." Find out why in this class!

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