IMC 2009: Sessions

Session 326: Wounds, II: Judicial, Religious, and Surgical Sources

Organiser:	Karine van 't Land, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen / Bartholomeus Society
Moderator/Chair:	Catrien Santing, Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Paper 326-a	Wounds and their Healing Occurring in Medieval Accounts of Saints' Lives (Language: English) Anne Kirkham, Department of Art History & Visual Studies, University of Manchester Index terms: Art History - General, Hagiography, Medicine, Religious Life
Paper 326-b	Categorising Wounds in the Old Frisian Compensation Tariffs (Language: English) Han Nijdam, Fryske Akademy, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - Other, Law, Mentalities
Abstract	Physically speaking, the Middle Ages were a rough period. People must have suffered from wounds more often than we do today. For example, wounds could be caused by fights at war or in the own neighbourhood, or again by heavy labour in a time without Factories Act. In this session, the subject of wounds will be discussed as they appeared in legal, surgical, and religious medieval sources.