IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 212: Something for the Pain, I: Pain in the World, or a World of Pain in the Middle Ages
Monday 10 July 2006, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft |
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| Organiser: | Arnold Otto, Erzbischöfliches Generalvikariat Erzbistumsarchiv, Paderborn |
| Moderator/Chair: | Arnold Otto, Erzbischöfliches Generalvikariat Erzbistumsarchiv, Paderborn |
| Paper 212-a | Pain Doesn't Count: Inflicting and Compensating Wounds in Medieval Frisia (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Law, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 212-b | Pain, Risks, and Reputation: Functions of Suffering in Surgical Practice (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Medicine, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 212-c | Courtly Knights in Pain: Suffering from Unhealing Wounds (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - German, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | In the Middle Ages, encountering pain was a very common phenomenon. Pain itself is a physical phenomenon in which information about bodily mistreatment is directed to the brain in a biochemical way. The actual encountering of pain however is a challenge to a human being’s understanding of his life, and an ongoing source of various emotions, reaching from anxious avoidance to heroic acceptance, to devout ways of living it up. The papers in these two sessions seek to investigate the various ways people dealt with pain in the Middle Ages and its aftermath. |