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You will work with the accompanying packet of primary sources. Read through and study them carefully. Use them to provide supporting evidence for an argument you will make about how leprosy (the disease today known as Hansen's Disease) was understood in the Middle Ages, and how people who had contracted leprosy were treated. ? Thoughtfully discuss the primary sources ? Clearly apply the SOCC (Source, Observe, Contextualize, Corroborate) principles to those primary sources ? Demonstrate an awareness of the broader historical contexts relating to your chosen ? argument which we have discussed in the course so far ? Acknowledge others' ideas and works where used through correct citation practices ? Remember, this is not a research paper. This is a place for you to show me your ability to work with primary sources using the skills of a historian. The Fine Print ? should be submitted in .doc, .docx or .pdf format ? Submissions should be in double-spaced Times New Roman 12pt font, and 3-4 pages in length. ? You will use the Chicago formatting and citation style (yes, the one with footnotes) for this assignment. Source 1 Statutes of the leprosarium of St. Mary Magdalene, Dudstone, England. Excerpted from E.J. Kealey, Medieval Medicine: A Social History of Anglo-Norman Medicine (John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1981), 200-201. This is the rule of the sick of Dudston prepared by Ivo, the great bishop of Chartres, a man of the finest judgment. Before all and above all obedience, patience, chastity, and common property must be observed by the sick. The men should be separated from the women and not go into the house of the women, nor the women into that of the men without permission of the master. On feast days a chapter should be held for the sick about noon time where faults can be corrected. On Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays let them eat meat, if possible. However, on other days they should abstain, unless the celebration of a feast supervenes. However, if anyone should murmur about an insufficient supply of food or drink, let him be rebuked up to the third time. Afterwards, if he complains let his draught of beer be withheld from him until he makes satisfaction, because on ac count of complaining the sons of Israel died in the 2 desert. Even if the brothers and sisters possess more than two sets of clothing, let those also be of one color, namely black, white, or russet, not several different colors. Those who are accepted as brothers and sisters should promise stability in the house and obedience to the master who presides. The sick should not go outdoors alone, nor should they wander about the streets, but let them go with a servant or a companion in good order where they have been instructed to go. The sick should not talk after Compline, except for those who are altogether bedridden. They should not talk in the church, except in the chapter when business affairs are being transacted. If someone is denounced, prostrate let him seek pardon and humbly confess if he admits the complaint, or deny it if he was not guilty. For the customary discipline of the master in such a case, let him impose a penance of beatings or fasting. However, if anyone refuses to accept discipline, as it is in the Cistercian Order, let him be expelled from the community. If anyone falls into open fornication, let him be expelled from the community without any mercy. If anyone is quarrelsome with the master, let him be sternly corrected; if he does this habitually, he should be thrown out. Guests who are sick should be received charitably and entertained for one night according to the ability of the house. At dawn everyone should rise for divine office and hear the matins of the day and of Saint Mary. However, in place of Matins laymen can say twenty-four Our Fathers. For each hour let them say the Our Father five times; instead of Vespers, seven times; in place of Compline, five times. They should eat twice a day except on principal fasts, but at the proper time. All should know the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Apostles' Creed. If anyone who is in good health should dedicate himself to the service of the sick, let him promise obedience and chastity and live as the warden of sick directs. No one should speak at table, unless about necessary things, nor should anyone presume to talk after compline except about necessary business of the house. No one should go out into the town or village without the permission of the master and the master should carefully inquire into the business for which such a person goes. And if anyone goes out before breakfast, he should come back for breakfast. And if he goes out after breakfast he should return for Vespers. Whoever will not accept this regulation, should lose his special meal treat for twenty days. No brother should be found with any sister, nor sister with any brother, in the cellar, or in the larder, or in the orchard, or in the field, under similar mealtime penalty of forty days. Thus ends the rule of the sick prepared by Ivo, the great bishop of Chartres. 3 Source 2 A Nun Feeding a Leper; illustration from a Psalter made about 1275–1300 in Engelberg, Switzerland. Now The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig VIII 3 (83.MK.94), fol. 43. Source 3 4 Excerpted from the Decrees of the Third Lateran Council, as translated in Norman P. Tanner, Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, Volume I: Nicaea I to Lateran V (Georgetown University Press: Washington, D.C., 1980), 222. Although the Apostles says that we should pay greater honour to our weaker members, certain ecclesiastics, seeking what is their own and not the things of Jesus Christ, do not allow lepers, who cannot dwell with the healthy or come to church with others, to have their own churches and cemeteries or to be helped by the ministry of their own priests. Since it is recognized that this is far from Christian piety, we decree, in accordance with apostolic charity, that wherever so many are gathered together under a common way of life that they are able to establish a church for themselves with a cemetery and rejoice in their own priest, they should be allowed to have them without contradiction. Let them take care, however, not to harm in any way the parochial rights of established churches. For we do not wish that what is granted them on the score of piety should result in harm to others. We also declare that they should not be compelled to pay tithes for their gardens or the pasture of animals. Source 4 The Chronicle of the Inquisitor Bernard Gui, excerpted from and translated by Malcolm Barber, "Lepers, Jews, and Moslems: The Plot to Overthrow Christendom in 1321", History 66: 216 (1981), 1-17. In 1321, there was detected and prevented an evil plan of the lepers against the healthy persons in the kingdom of France. Indeed, plotting against the safety of the people, these persons, unhealthy in body and insane in mind, had arranged to infect the waters of the rivers and fountains and wells everywhere, by placing poison and infected matter in them and by mixing [into the water] prepared powders, so that healthy men drinking from them or using the water thus infected, would become lepers, or die, or almost die, and thus the number of the lepers would be increased and the healthy decreased. And what seems incredible to say, they aspired to the lordship of towns and castles, and had already divided among themselves the lordship of places, and given themselves the name of potentate, count or baron in various lands, if what they planned should come about. […] In many places, in detestation of the horrible act, the lepers, both men and women, were shut up in their homes with all their things, (and) fire having been applied, they were burnt by the people without any judgement. […] At length more mature advice and consultation having been taken, the rest, all and individually, who had remained alive and were not found guilty, circumspectly providing for the future, were enclosed in places from which they could never come out, but wither away and languish in perpetuity, so that they would not do harm or multiply, men being completely separated from women. Source 5 5 "Travel account of an anonymous pilgrim from Piacenza." Excerpted from John Wilkinson, Jerusalem Pilgrims before the Crusades (Warminster, 1977), 81-82. We went to a city called Gadara, which is Gibeon, and there, three miles from the city, there are hot springs called the Baths of Elijah. Lepers are cleansed there, and have their meals from the inn there at public expense. The baths fill in the evening. In front of the basin is a large tank. When it is full, all the gates are closed, and they are sent in through a small door with lights and incense, and sit in the tank all night. They fall asleep, and the person who is going to be cured sees a vision. When he has told it the springs do not flow for a week. In one week he is cleansed. [… and also at the Baths of Moses at Livias, in] these also lepers are cleansed. A spring there has very sweet water which they drink as a cathartic, and it heals many diseases. This is not far from the Salt Sea, into which the Jordan flows, below Sodom and Gomorrha. Sulphur and pitch are collected on that shore. Lepers lie in the sea there all through the day in July, August, and the early part of September. In the evening they wash in these Baths of Moses. From time to time by the will of God one of them is cleansed, but for most of them it brings some relief. Source 6 Excerpted from Usama ibn Munqidh, The Book of Contemplation, trans. Paul Cobb (Penguin Classics: New York, 2008), 197. [The physician] ibn Butlan used to be attached to the service of my great-grandfather, Abu al Mutawwaj Muqallad. It happened that my grandfather, Sadid al-Mulk 'Ali (may God have mercy upon him), developed a white patch of skin when he was just a little boy. His father became anxious about it, fearing it might be leprosy. So he summoned ibn Butlan and said to him, "Have a look at what has appeared on Ali's body." So ibn Butlan examined him and said, "I'll need five hundred dinars to treat him and make this malady leave him." "If you had treated Ali, I would not have considered it fair to you to pay only five hundred dinars," replied my great-grandfather. When he saw that my great-grandfather was angry, ibn Butlan said, "My lord, I am your servant and slave, existing by your bounty. What I said, I said only by way of a jest. The ailment afflicting Ali is just a skin irritation that affects the young. When he reaches adolescence, it will pass. So don't be worried about it and don't let anyone tell you "I'll treat him if you pay me money." For all this will clear up when he matures." And it turned out just as he had said.