IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 220: Pleasure and Care, II: Medicine and Devotion
Monday 1 July 2013, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Naama Cohen-Hanegbi, Wolfson College, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Iona McCleery, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
| Paper 220-a | Midwifing Souls into Spiritual Pleasure in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Medicine |
| Paper 220-b | Medical Approaches to Pleasure and Joy in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Medicine, Philosophy |
| Paper 220-c | Christianisation of Pleasure in Late Medieval Medicine (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Medicine, Sermons and Preaching |
| Abstract | The late Middle Ages saw a proliferation of works dedicated to the advancement of giving care in the disciplines of religion, medicine, and law. This growing attention to the well-being of the public and individual was pursued through the consideration of emotional habits and states; within this discourse pleasure was understood as a central affect. The sessions will discuss the theoretical and practical formulation of pleasure within the encounter of caregivers - priests, physicians, men of the law - and penitents, patients, juries, and offenders. Special emphasis will be given to the conjunction between disciplines in instigating shifts and changes in the understanding of the function and practices of pleasure. The second session concerns law and medicine and the interface between them and religious thought and practices. |