IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1207: The 'Medical Turn': Interpreting Non-Medical Sources for the History of Healthcare and Disease
Wednesday 11 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Iona McCleery, Centre for the History of Medicine & Disease, University of Durham |
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Moderator/Chair: | Emilia Jamroziak, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden / Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
Paper 1207-a | Looking for 'Medici' in Early Medieval Charters (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Medicine, Social History |
Paper 1207-b | The Female Healer in Medieval Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Medicine, Women’s Studies |
Paper 1207-c | The Role of Medicine and Disease in Late Medieval Portuguese Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Medicine, Military History |
Abstract | The social history of medicine is probably one of the fastest growing historical fields and historians are making use of an increasingly wide range of sources in order to document medieval medical practice and the diffusion of medical learning. Saints' lives and miracle collections have been explored most thoroughly in the last twenty years, but other sources also deserve critical attention. There are both problems and opportunities in interdisciplinary work of this nature. This session aims to highlight some of the issues associated with using charters, chronicles, and literary texts in the history of medicine. |