IMC 2012: Sessions

Session 113: Getting Clean and Being Dirty: Rules to Follow for Hygiene

Organiser:	Belle Tuten, Department of History, Juniata College, Pennsylvania
Moderator/Chair:	Peter John Smith, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
Paper 113-a	To Bathe or Not to Bathe: Some Medieval Rules (Language: English) Elizabeth Archibald, Department of English, University of Bristol Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Middle English, Social History
Paper 113-b	When to 'Go' in Frankish Monastic Texts (Language: English) Belle Tuten, Department of History, Juniata College, Pennsylvania Index terms: Daily Life, Medicine, Monasticism
Paper 113-c	Why Hold a Drinking Party in a Latrine?: Women's Impurity in Two Anglo-Saxon Texts (Language: English) Martha Bayless, Department of English, University of Oregon Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English
Abstract	This session features three papers on hygiene, bathing, and toilet habits. Rules about hygiene are culturally produced, and their everyday quality, combined with social taboos, makes them invisible in many texts. The authors seek to explore rules and taboos in a variety of medieval texts.