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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1204: Religion and Medicine, I: Contexts for Religion and Medicine

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Exeter
Organiser:Catherine Rider, Department of History, University of Exeter
Moderator/Chair:Sethina Watson, Department of History, University of York
Paper 1204-aThe Bled, the Fed, the Bedridden, and the Dead: Inhabitants of the Monastic Infirmary and Their Experience of Monastic Healthcare
(Language: English)
Tamsin Gardner, Department of History, University of Exeter
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Medicine, Monasticism
Paper 1204-bCare and Commemoration at the Savoy Hospital in the Early 16th Century
(Language: English)
Charlotte Stanford, Department of Humanities, Classics & Comparative Literature, Brigham Young University, Utah
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Medicine, Religious Life
Paper 1204-cExploring the Network of Care within the Norman Kingdom of Sicily
(Language: English)
Amy Devenney, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Index terms: Hagiography, Medicine
Abstract

The interaction between religion and medicine in the Middle Ages has attracted the interest increasing numbers of scholars over the last few decades. This session focuses on the differing contexts in which religion and medicine interacted, with papers on two institutional contexts - hospitals and monasteries (the latter of which have been surprisingly under-studied) and one geographical one, the kingdom of Sicily. It will examine how the interaction between religious and medical ideas and practices varied in these different settings, as well as looking at some of the religious assumptions that underlay healthcare provision in these different institutions.