IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 1321: Emotion and Illness
Wednesday 12 July 2006, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Karin Schlapbach, King's College, University of London / Universität Zürich |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Jennifer Ebbeler, Department of Classics, University of Texas, Austin |
| Paper 1321-a | Love as Illness in the Late Antique and Byzantine Love Novel (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek |
| Paper 1321-b | Theatre and Disease in Augustine and John Chrysostom (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Greek, Language and Literature - Latin, Performance Arts - General |
| Paper 1321-c | The Monks Affected: Vices as Diseases in John Cassian (Language: English) Index terms: Medicine, Monasticism |
| Abstract | In the Latin and Greek literary writing of the late antique and Byzantine periods, emotion is often perceived as an illness, for instance when someone is in love, or when spectators in the theater participate in the emotions of the actors. But emotions also play a crucial role in dealing with disease: by consciously manipulating the emotional reaction to disease, the latter’s impact is converted from being a threat into a welcome challenge. |