Syphilis : Medicine, Metaphor, and Religious Conflict in Early Modern France /

Syphilis : Medicine, Metaphor, and Religious Conflict in Early Modern France /

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"In Syphilis: Medicine, Metaphor, and Religious Conflict in Early Modern France, Deborah Losse examines how images of syphilis became central to Renaissance writing and reflected more than just the rapid spread of this new and poorly understood disease. Losse argues that early modern writers al...

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Main Author: Losse, Deborah N., 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Syphilis in literature.
Syphilis.
Medicine in literature.
history (discipline)
religion (discipline)
humanities.
Histoire.
Appareil urogenital > Maladies.
Maladies.
Organes genitaux mâles > Maladies.
Organes genitaux femelles > Maladies.
Infection.
Infections transmissibles sexuellement.
Maladies bacteriennes.
Religion.
Litterature.
Sciences humaines.
Medecine > Aspect religieux.
Syphilis > France > Histoire.
Medecine dans la litterature.
Syphilis dans la litterature.
Infectious Diseases.
Health & Biological Sciences.
Medicine.
Syphilis
History
Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications
Female Urogenital Diseases
Male Urogenital Diseases
Disease
Genital Diseases, Male
Genital Diseases, Female
Geographicals
Bacterial Infections and Mycoses
Infections
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections
Spirochaetales Infections
Geographic Locations
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Bacterial Infections
Religion
Treponemal Infections
Literature
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Bacterial
Humanities
Medicine in Literature
Syphilis > history
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Religion and Medicine
History.
Genitourinary organs > Diseases.
Diseases.
Generative organs, Male > Diseases.
Sexually transmitted diseases.
Bacterial diseases.
Humanities.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Syphilis > France > History.
France.
Europe.
Europe
France
Electronic books.
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Summary:"In Syphilis: Medicine, Metaphor, and Religious Conflict in Early Modern France, Deborah Losse examines how images of syphilis became central to Renaissance writing and reflected more than just the rapid spread of this new and poorly understood disease. Losse argues that early modern writers also connected syphilis with the wars of religion in sixteenth-century France. These writers, from reform-minded humanists to Protestant poets and Catholic polemicists, entered the debate from all sides by appropriating the disease as a metaphor for weakening French social institutions. Catholics and Protestants alike leveled the charge of paillardise (lechery) at one another. Losse demonstrates how they adopted the language of disease to attack each other's politics, connecting diseased bodies with diseased doctrine. Losse provides close readings of a range of genres, moving between polemical poetry, satirical narratives, dialogical colloquies, travel literature, and the personal essay. With chapters featuring Erasmus, Rabelais, Montaigne, Lery, and Agrippa d'Aubigne, this study compares literary descriptions of syphilis with medical descriptions. In the first full-length study of Renaissance writers' engagement with syphilis, Deborah Losse charts a history from the most vehement rhetoric of the pox to a tenuous resolution of France's conflicts, when both sides called for a return to order"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:1 online resource (200 pages).
ISBN:9780814273746
Access:Open Access

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