"Lepers Outside the Gate"

Excavations at the Cemetery of the Hospital of St James and St Mary Magdalene, Chichester, 1986-87 and 1993

• Author(s): J. R. Magilton, Frances Lee, Anthea Boylston,
• Publisher: Council for British Archaeology
• Pages: 294
• ISBN_10: 1902771745
  ISBN_13: 9781902771748
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / Europe / General , History / Europe / Great Britain / General , History / Europe / Medieval , Medical / Hospital Administration & Care , Social Science / Archaeology ,

Description:... 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.