Timothy S. Miller is Professor of History at Salisbury University. He is the author of The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire and The Orphans of Byzantium. John W. Nesbitt has retired as Research Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks. He is coauthor of The Miracles of St. Artemios: A Collection of Miracle Stories by an Anonymous Author of Seventh-Century Byzantium, editor of Byzantine Authors: Literary Activities and Preoccupations, and coeditor of the six-volume Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and the Fogg Museum of Art. Miller and Nesbitt are the coeditors of Peace and War in the Byzantine Empire.

'Wretched corpses,' 'moving cadavers,' 'creeping bodies.' Fourth-century Byzantine bishops used these phrases to describe men and women afflicted with leprosy. Timothy S. Miller and John W. Nesbitt invite readers to reinterpret this dramatic language in their book, Walking Corpses, a useful comparative study of religious, medical, and legal reactions to leprosy in Byzantium and the medieval Latin West.(Isis) Walking Corpses impresses as a book filling gaps in existing scholarship, and provides a welcome resource for the teaching of medieval leprosy, a fraught and fascinating topic in undergraduate classrooms. Of particular value is the appendix with the author's edition of relevant texts on leprosy. Walking Corpses both expands the field of study and shows directions in which this necessary endeavor can be continued.(Comitatus) Walking Corpses provides a fresh study of leprosy in the medieval world.The book will certainly stimulate further discussion on the history of leprosy in Byzantium and the medieval West(Bryn Mawr Classical Review) This is a compact, accessible study, which delivers on its promise to bring the insights provided by studies of late antique Greek leprosy to bear on medieval Latin ones.(History of Religions) In Walking Corpses, two renowned medieval historians have decided to enrich the associated subject with an astute scholarly perspective. Their mutual cooperation has resulted in a sweeping and innovative analysis of the discourse of leprosy in the medieval East and West.(Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities) Walking Corpses offers the nonspecialist audience a very readable introduction to a fascinating subject and a valuable example of the importance of studying the Byzantine origins of medieval institutions.(Church History) This engaging book represents the culmination of over forty years of scholarship by both authors on the social, cultural, and political history of Byzantium. Walking Corpses is a useful volume for highlighting the urgent need for more text editing and detailed case studies to fill gaps in our knowledge of medieval leprosy.(The American Historical Review)

• Introduction1. The Ancient World2. Leprosy in the Byzantine Empire3. Byzantine Medicine4. Byzantine Leprosariums5. Leprosy in the Latin West6. Leprosariums in the Latin West7. The Knights of LazarusConclusionAppendixes1. Aretaios of Cappadocia, On Acute and Chronic Diseases (Books IV.13 and VIII.13)2. Gregory of Nyssa's Oration, Regarding the Words "As much as you have done for one of these, you have done for me" (Matt. 25:40)3. Selection from The Funeral Oration in Praise of Saint John Chrysostom (Chapters 60.17 to 67.1)

Timothy S. Miller is Professor of History at Salisbury University. He is the author of The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire and The Orphans of Byzantium. John W. Nesbitt has retired as Research Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks. He is coauthor of The Miracles of St. Artemios: A Collection of Miracle Stories by an Anonymous Author of Seventh-Century Byzantium, editor of Byzantine Authors: Literary Activities and Preoccupations, and coeditor of the six-volume Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and the Fogg Museum of Art. Miller and Nesbitt are the coeditors of Peace and War in the Byzantine Empire.

'Wretched corpses,' 'moving cadavers,' 'creeping bodies.' Fourth-century Byzantine bishops used these phrases to describe men and women afflicted with leprosy. Timothy S. Miller and John W. Nesbitt invite readers to reinterpret this dramatic language in their book, Walking Corpses, a useful comparative study of religious, medical, and legal reactions to leprosy in Byzantium and the medieval Latin West.(Isis) Walking Corpses impresses as a book filling gaps in existing scholarship, and provides a welcome resource for the teaching of medieval leprosy, a fraught and fascinating topic in undergraduate classrooms. Of particular value is the appendix with the author's edition of relevant texts on leprosy. Walking Corpses both expands the field of study and shows directions in which this necessary endeavor can be continued.(Comitatus) Walking Corpses provides a fresh study of leprosy in the medieval world.The book will certainly stimulate further discussion on the history of leprosy in Byzantium and the medieval West(Bryn Mawr Classical Review) This is a compact, accessible study, which delivers on its promise to bring the insights provided by studies of late antique Greek leprosy to bear on medieval Latin ones.(History of Religions) In Walking Corpses, two renowned medieval historians have decided to enrich the associated subject with an astute scholarly perspective. Their mutual cooperation has resulted in a sweeping and innovative analysis of the discourse of leprosy in the medieval East and West.(Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities) Walking Corpses offers the nonspecialist audience a very readable introduction to a fascinating subject and a valuable example of the importance of studying the Byzantine origins of medieval institutions.(Church History) This engaging book represents the culmination of over forty years of scholarship by both authors on the social, cultural, and political history of Byzantium. Walking Corpses is a useful volume for highlighting the urgent need for more text editing and detailed case studies to fill gaps in our knowledge of medieval leprosy.(The American Historical Review)

• Introduction1. The Ancient World2. Leprosy in the Byzantine Empire3. Byzantine Medicine4. Byzantine Leprosariums5. Leprosy in the Latin West6. Leprosariums in the Latin West7. The Knights of LazarusConclusionAppendixes1. Aretaios of Cappadocia, On Acute and Chronic Diseases (Books IV.13 and VIII.13)2. Gregory of Nyssa's Oration, Regarding the Words "As much as you have done for one of these, you have done for me" (Matt. 25:40)3. Selection from The Funeral Oration in Praise of Saint John Chrysostom (Chapters 60.17 to 67.1)

Timothy S. Miller is Professor of History at Salisbury University. He is the author of The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire and The Orphans of Byzantium. John W. Nesbitt has retired as Research Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks. He is coauthor of The Miracles of St. Artemios: A Collection of Miracle Stories by an Anonymous Author of Seventh-Century Byzantium, editor of Byzantine Authors: Literary Activities and Preoccupations, and coeditor of the six-volume Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and the Fogg Museum of Art. Miller and Nesbitt are the coeditors of Peace and War in the Byzantine Empire.

'Wretched corpses,' 'moving cadavers,' 'creeping bodies.' Fourth-century Byzantine bishops used these phrases to describe men and women afflicted with leprosy. Timothy S. Miller and John W. Nesbitt invite readers to reinterpret this dramatic language in their book, Walking Corpses, a useful comparative study of religious, medical, and legal reactions to leprosy in Byzantium and the medieval Latin West.(Isis) Walking Corpses impresses as a book filling gaps in existing scholarship, and provides a welcome resource for the teaching of medieval leprosy, a fraught and fascinating topic in undergraduate classrooms. Of particular value is the appendix with the author's edition of relevant texts on leprosy. Walking Corpses both expands the field of study and shows directions in which this necessary endeavor can be continued.(Comitatus) Walking Corpses provides a fresh study of leprosy in the medieval world.The book will certainly stimulate further discussion on the history of leprosy in Byzantium and the medieval West(Bryn Mawr Classical Review) This is a compact, accessible study, which delivers on its promise to bring the insights provided by studies of late antique Greek leprosy to bear on medieval Latin ones.(History of Religions) In Walking Corpses, two renowned medieval historians have decided to enrich the associated subject with an astute scholarly perspective. Their mutual cooperation has resulted in a sweeping and innovative analysis of the discourse of leprosy in the medieval East and West.(Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities) Walking Corpses offers the nonspecialist audience a very readable introduction to a fascinating subject and a valuable example of the importance of studying the Byzantine origins of medieval institutions.(Church History) This engaging book represents the culmination of over forty years of scholarship by both authors on the social, cultural, and political history of Byzantium. Walking Corpses is a useful volume for highlighting the urgent need for more text editing and detailed case studies to fill gaps in our knowledge of medieval leprosy.(The American Historical Review)

• Introduction1. The Ancient World2. Leprosy in the Byzantine Empire3. Byzantine Medicine4. Byzantine Leprosariums5. Leprosy in the Latin West6. Leprosariums in the Latin West7. The Knights of LazarusConclusionAppendixes1. Aretaios of Cappadocia, On Acute and Chronic Diseases (Books IV.13 and VIII.13)2. Gregory of Nyssa's Oration, Regarding the Words "As much as you have done for one of these, you have done for me" (Matt. 25:40)3. Selection from The Funeral Oration in Praise of Saint John Chrysostom (Chapters 60.17 to 67.1)