Dear Graham Jones,
If you are interested in leprosaria and also in the connection between
sickness and sin, you might want to talk to Max Satchell, who just
finished his D.Phil. on leper hospitals in England and dealt with both
topics.
Although I have bent his arm to get onto the list, I don't know if he
has joined yet. His e-mail is either [log in to unmask]
or [log in to unmask]
James of Vitry has some wonderful sermons to lepers. Typically James,
he deals with the horrors of leprosy not as a curse but as a divinely
given opportunity for purgating oneself on earth in order to escape
purgation in the afterlife. Guibert de Tournai and Humbert of Romans
also wrote sermons addressed to lepers. All the above have been
edited by Touati and N. Beriou in _Voluntati Dei Leprosi_.
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