IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 326: Wounds, II: Judicial, Religious, and Surgical Sources
Monday 13 July 2009, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Karine van 't Land, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen / Bartholomeus Society |
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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) Index terms: Art History - General, Hagiography, Medicine, Religious Life |
Paper 326-b | Categorising Wounds in the Old Frisian Compensation Tariffs (Language: English) 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. |