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

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

Losse, Deborah N.

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Medical ReferenceLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0814252060
ISBN13: 9780814252062
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Mar 18 2016
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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