IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1509: Spheres of Understanding: Lay and Clerical Perceptions of Physical and Spiritual Health in the Medieval West
Thursday 15 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Belief & Ideology Research Network, School of History, University of Nottingham |
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| Organiser: | Rob Lutton, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Moderator/Chair: | Elisabeth Salter, Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University |
| Paper 1509-a | 'O helthful name': The Benefits of Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Lay Piety, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
| Paper 1509-b | Men's Health: The Bodies and Minds of Medieval Masculinities (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 1509-c | Worlds Apart: Angels, Sin, and Popular Medicine in an Early 14th-Century Manuscript (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine, Science, Social History |
| Abstract | This session addresses differing conceptions of spiritual and physical health in lay and clerical writings, c. 1100 - c. 1500. The first paper examines the perceived benefits of devotion to the holy name of Jesus in England. The second explores representations of male bodies and of men's physical and spiritual health in lay and clerical writings and their use of Classical physiognomic ideas about health and the body. The third examines a specific manuscript containing a didactic work that may have been intended to make science more accessible to those with little or no Latin. It asks how the popularity of such works affected the transmission of medical advice. |