IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 522: Talking about the Weather in Medieval England
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
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| Organiser: | Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Moderator/Chair: | Tony Moore, International Capital Market Association (ICMA) Centre, University of Reading |
| Paper 522-a | Forecasting the Weather in Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Monasticism, Science |
| Paper 522-b | The Stars, the Weather, and the New Science of the 12th-Century (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Monasticism, Science, Technology |
| Paper 522-c | Astrology, Meteorology, and the Science of Robert Grosseteste (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Science, Theology |
| Abstract | This session brings together inter-related studies of the development of 'scientific' meteorology in English medieval culture. The first paper focuses on the meteorological procedures specified by certain Anglo-Saxon prognostics, and examines their contrast with the more medical theories embodied in other prognostic texts. The others examine the suggestion that the introduction of the astrolabe into 12th-century England brought with it an interest in Arab techniques of weather forecasting, as well as enabling Grosseteste and Bacon to make significant contributions to the development of astrometeorology. The aim is to argue that English scholars not only talked about the weather but also worked to understand and to predict it. |