'For it is improper to be addicted to the tedium of affliction': Christian Responses to Pandemic in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

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dc.contributor.authorDunn, Geoffrey David
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-28T11:56:48Z
dc.date.available2022-03-28T11:56:48Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThe current COVID-19 pandemic has seen some turn to the past to see if the historical evidence provides any assistance to forecasting the probable duration and intensity of the disease and the length of time until a vaccine or cure is found. In this paper, on the contrary, the aim is to look to the present situation to help understand the past. The current pandemic, which seems impossible to halt even as vaccines start to roll out, and threatens to destroy the way people interact with one another and provide for their families has undermined confidence in the progress of medical science and the human mastery over the natural world. The fear and helplessness that has come in its wake is much the way people in previous centuries felt in the face of rampant and uncontrollable disease. In this paper several episodes of the first bubonic plague, known as the plague of Justinian, that lasted from the sixth to eighth centuries, as reported by Gregory I, bishop of Rome, and Gregory, bishop of Tours, both active at the end of the sixth century, will be explored. In light of our own experience of vulnerability because of the impotence of modern medicine so far to offer protection, we are better able to appreciate the reaction of people who lived in Lombard Italy and Merovingian France to intractable natural disaster.pl
dc.identifier.citation"Vox Patrum", 2021, T. 78, s. 389-426pl
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/vp.11896
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/2892
dc.language.isoenpl
dc.publisherWydawnictwo KULpl
dc.rightsUznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/*
dc.subjectinfectious diseasepl
dc.subjectpandemicpl
dc.subjectGregory the Greatpl
dc.subjectGregory of Tourspl
dc.subjectPaul the deaconpl
dc.subjectJohn Immonideapl
dc.subjectJustinianic plaguepl
dc.subjectCOVID-19pl
dc.subjectRomepl
dc.subjectCastel Sant'Angelopl
dc.subjectpandemiapl
dc.subjectGrzegorz Wielkipl
dc.subjectGrzegorz z Tourspl
dc.subjectPaweł Diakonpl
dc.subjectplaga Justynianapl
dc.subjectRzympl
dc.subjectZamek św. Aniołapl
dc.subjectCOVID-19pl
dc.subjectJan Diakon Hymonidespl
dc.subjectzarazapl
dc.title'For it is improper to be addicted to the tedium of affliction': Christian Responses to Pandemic in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Agespl
dc.title.alternative"Gdyż niewłaściwe jest uzależnienie się od nudy niedoli'': Chrześcijańskie odpowiedzi na pandemię w późnej starożytności i wczesnym średniowieczupl
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlepl
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