On the margins of a minority : leprosy, madness, and disability among the Jews of medieval Europe / / Ephraim Shoham-Steiner ; translated by Haim Watzman
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Shoham-Steiner Ephraim
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| Titolo: |
On the margins of a minority : leprosy, madness, and disability among the Jews of medieval Europe / / Ephraim Shoham-Steiner ; translated by Haim Watzman
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| Pubblicazione: | Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Edizione: | English-language edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.9/080940902 |
| Soggetto topico: | Marginality, Social - Religious aspects - History - To 1500 |
| Marginality, Social - Europe, Northern - History - To 1500 | |
| Jews - Europe, Northern - History - To 1500 | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | WatzmanHaim |
| Note generali: | Translated from Hebrew. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | On the margins of a minority |
| ISBN: | 0-8143-3932-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819033403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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