Lepers Outside the Gate: Excavations at the Cemetery of the House of St. James and St. Mary Magdalene, Chichester

by John Magilton, Frances Lee, and Anthea Boylston

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Founded as a leper hospital for men in the 12th century, this institution admitted women and children towards the end of the Middle Ages and survived the Reformation by becoming an almshouse for the sick poor. The report includes a discussion of leprosy and contemporary attitudes to it, medieval hsopitals and cemeteries and the provision of chritable care. The cemetery provided the largest sample of skeletons from an English medieval leper hospital to date, and one of the most significant assemblages of leper graves in Europe.
  • ISBN10 1902771745
  • ISBN13 9781902771748
  • Publish Date 31 December 2008
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 1 April 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Council for British Archaeology
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 294
  • Language English