IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 1623: The Experience of Leprosy in the Middle Ages, II
Thursday 17 July 2003, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Medica |
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Organiser: | Isla Fay, School of History, University of East Anglia |
Moderator/Chair: | Patricia Cullum, Department of History, University of Huddersfield |
Paper 1623-a | Rex inutilis - abbas inutilis?: Notes on Physical Illness and Rulership in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1623-b | Infant and Child Leprosy: Present and Past (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology |
Abstract | Shifting the Chronological focus of Session 1 forwards, the first paper considers aspects of leprosy stigma using historical and osteoarchaeological evidence from St James, Chichester. It challenges the idea that segregation was a 'natural' response to the physical presentation of th disease. The second paper explores documentary, pictorial and osseous evidence of leprosy in juveniles, in combination with clinical knowledge of the disease, in order to explain how leprosy may have affected this silent population. Issues of osteoarchaeological 'invisibility' are also explored. The content of the third paper will be confirmed. |