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Tabuteau, Bruno, "Vingt mille léproseries au Moyen Âge? Tradition française d'un poncif historiographique", Memini, 15 (2011), 115-121.
- Resum
- Until today, and even in the writings of the best authors, one of the most persistent historiographic clichés on leprosy in the Middle Ages, is related to the alleged number of hospitals where the victims were tended at the time: 19 000 in Christendom, 2 000 in the Kingdom of France. The first figure was wrongfully ascribed by Du Cange's continuators to the English chronicler Matthew Paris, who meant in fact the houses of the order of the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem. The criticism of this figure was expressed as early as the 19th century but did not get any subsequent echo. None ever really dealt with the second one, which appeared in the king of France Louis VIII's will of 1225. Now neither was the distribution area of the pious bequests specified in this will, nor was its execution confirmed. More than Du Cange's augmented Glossarium, Diderot's Encyclopédie, citing these two figures, seems eventually to have been at the source of such a long and erroneous historiographic tradition, the succeeding authors taking each other's word for it. At best, they indulge in vain extrapolations. We now have to substitute them for the fruit of methodical investigations, a task some researchers have been tackling for a few decades.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Història de la medicina
Hospitals
Metodologia
- Notes
- També a Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, 88/4 (2010), 1293-1300
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- URL
- https://doi.org/10.4000/memini.417
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