IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 113: Nurture and Nature
Monday 7 July 2008, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Marginalia |
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| Organiser: | James P. Wade, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Christopher Wilson, Queen Mary, University of London |
| Paper 113-b | 'It is not trewe, it may nevyr be!': Medieval Midwives and the Dual Nature of Christ (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Performance Arts - Drama |
| Paper 113-c | 'And Gentile queens shall nurse your children': The Impact of Wet-Nursing Practices on Jewish-Christian Relations in 13th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
| Abstract | The session aims to explore how human nature was conceptualised and pre- and post-lapsarian existences were contrasted in medieval Judeo-Christian thought. The three papers draw respectively on art history, Middle English literature, and the medical and religious texts of the period to consider the interrelations of the natural world, the nurture of children and the communication of theology to a lay audience. |