IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 124: Medieval Devotional Practice and Medicine
Monday 14 July 2003, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | MEDICA: A Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages |
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Organiser: | Louise M. Bishop, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon |
Moderator/Chair: | Bryon Grigsby, Department of English & Communications, Centenary College, New Jersey |
Paper 124-a | Celebrating the Female Healer: The Virgin Mary as Nurse to Christus Medicus (Language: English) Index terms: Medicine, Theology |
Paper 124-b | Medicina Sacramentalis (Language: English) Index terms: Medicine, Theology |
Paper 124-c | Resting in Pieces: The Practice of Bodily Division in England c. 1300 (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Social History |
Paper 124-d | 'And you shall be whole': Vernacular Medical Reading and Cure (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Literacy and Orality, Medicine, Theology |
Abstract | This session will address the complex intersection, visible in late medieval healing practices and imagery, between Christian piety and medicine. With attention to the telling interplay among theological, literary, and pictorial renderings of sickness and health, speakers will consider medical practices within a context of religious ideas about illness, cure, and piety. Papers will explore the figure of Christus Medicus and the Virgin as nurse, as well as the healing power of the Host and the curative aspects of reading itself, to interpret a wide range of practices associated with healing and piety in the late Middle Ages. |