IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1605: Fragmented Body Politic, IV: Slaying, Praying, and Not Decaying

Thursday 10 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Organiser:	Victoria Blud, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Moderator/Chair:	Sethina Watson, Department of History, University of York
Paper 1605-a	'Skilfully-Made Doors': Physician-Patient Contact in Anglo-Saxon Medicine (Language: English) Kate H. Thomas, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Index terms: Anthropology, Daily Life, Historiography - Medieval, Medicine
Paper 1605-b	Sources of 'Impending Destruction': Female Relics in Male Monastic Settings (Language: English) Kimberley Cosgrove, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University Index terms: Archives and Sources, Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies
Paper 1605-c	Re-Membering Violence and Building Urban Solidarity in Ghent Guild Dramas (Language: English) Laura Crombie, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Index terms: Folk Studies, Local History, Mentalities, Performance Arts - Drama
Abstract	This interdisciplinary panel analyses the changing functions of the ruin and restoration of sacred, saintly, and secular bodies, both of individuals and collectives. The papers engage with Anglo-Saxon medico-theological practice, gendered conflict in the cloisters, and the ways in which the commemoration of martyrs helped to build civic identity in the Ghent guild plays. Together the papers consider different aspects of the importance of the physical body and of abstract 'bodies' of thought and learning, as well as their urban and clerical audiences.