IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 832: The Health of the Realm: The Historical Context of Medicine in the Early Middle Ages
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
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Organisers: | Julia Bolotina, St John's College, University of Cambridge Christine Voth, Newnham College, University of Cambridge |
Moderator/Chair: | Christine Voth, Newnham College, University of Cambridge |
Paper 832-a | A Case for Female Involvement in the Old English Medicina de quadrupedibus (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality, Medicine, Women's Studies |
Paper 832-b | Eadswith's Madness: Mental Illness and Anglo-Saxon Community (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Medicine, Mentalities |
Paper 832-c | Support Structures for the Poor and Sick Poor in Early Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Medicine, Social History |
Abstract | While interest in medicine and medical texts has been growing in recent years, its historical context has largely been neglected. Illness and treatment do not exist in a vacuum: just as chronic stomach pain finds a place alongside Byzantine diplomacy and the Lombard threat in the |