IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1304: Religion and Medicine, II: Religious Views of Illness
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Exeter |
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| Organiser: | Catherine Rider, Department of History, University of Exeter |
| Moderator/Chair: | Iona McCleery, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1304-a | God's Will, Old Age, and Miraculous Conception: Infertility in Late Medieval Religious Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Medicine, Religious Life, Sexuality |
| Paper 1304-b | Hagiographical Perceptions of Mental Illness in 12th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Medicine |
| Paper 1304-c | The Crusades and the Sick King (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Medicine, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The interaction between religion and medicine in the Middle Ages has attracted the interest increasing numbers of scholars over the last few decades, and this session is one of two focusing on the area. It examines the ways in which medicine and religion interacted when medieval people thought about particular illnesses and medical situations, with papers on infertility and mental illness - both conditions which were mentioned in the Bible and in later medieval religious texts as having a spiritual dimension - and a paper on attitudes to illness during the unusual religious setting of the crusades, focussing on sick crusading kings. |