Medieval leprosy reconsidered.(1000 to 1300 A.D.)
From: International Social Science Review
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Date: 3/22/2006
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Author: Miller, Timothy S.; Smith-Savage, Rachel
Historians recognize that during the High Middle Ages--from shortly after 1000 to 1300 A.D.--Western Europe experienced a period of unparalleled growth. Populations tripled; first schools and then universities flourished; new cathedrals rose up in many cities; and, commerce and manufacturing had been revitalized on the Italian peninsula and gradually spread throughout Western Europe. Ironically, this period also witnessed an unprecedented outbreak of leprosy in the region, a disease ...
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