ISBN:
9780814339329
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0814339328
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Shoham-Steiner, Ephraim On the Margins of a Minority : Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe
DDC:
305.9080940902
Keywords:
Marginality, Social Religious aspects
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History
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To 1500
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Marginality, Social History
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To 1500
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Europe, Northern
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Jews History
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To 1500
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Europe, Northern
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Marginality, Social History To 1500
;
Jews History To 1500
;
Marginality, Social Religious aspects To 1500
;
History
;
Jews History To 1500
;
Marginality, Social Religious aspects To 1500
;
History
;
Marginality, Social History To 1500
;
Jews History
;
To 1500
;
Europe, Northern
;
Marginality, Social History
;
To 1500
;
Europe, Northern
;
Marginality, Social Religious aspects
;
History
;
To 1500
;
Europe, Northern
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Jews
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Marginality, Social
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Marginality, Social ; Religious aspects
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History
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Northern Europe
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Electronic books
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Leprosy as a Concept -- 2. Social Attitudes toward Lepers -- 3. What Is Madness? -- 4. Social Attitudes toward the Insane -- 5. The Physically Impaired -- 6. Disability in Sacred and Private Space -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Abstract:
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
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