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How had these backward and superstitious people managed to defeat the apparently unstoppable monster of leprosy? The answer, to them, obviously lay in compulsory mass isolation.’īut the truth was that lepers in the medieval period were often regarded as touched by God holy sufferers like the Biblical figure of Job.
As Carole Rawcliffe, an expert in the history of medicine, says: ‘ Aghast at the imperial danger posed by what looked like an inexorable epidemic sweeping westwards from the colonies, the medical and intellectual elites of Europe and America turned to the Middle Ages for inspiration. Yet modern scholarship suggests the idea of the outcast medieval leper actually comes from the frenzied imagination of 19th Century Europeans who were terrified of contracting leprosy in the various outposts of their empires.
