IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1036: Disability and Disparity, I: Experiences of Pain, Suffering, and the Sacred
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | 'Homo debilis' Projekt, Universität Bremen |
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| Organiser: | Bianca Frohne, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Universität Bremen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Irina Metzler, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University / Projekt 'Homo Debilis', Universität Bremen |
| Paper 1036-a | Corporality, Suffering, and the Miraculous in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Hagiography, Lay Piety, Mentalities |
| Paper 1036-b | Rituals at the Shrine: Curing the Demoniac, Curing the Madman (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Hagiography, Lay Piety |
| Paper 1036-c | Weighed Down, Lifted Up: A Spatial Approach to the Body in Pain (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Lay Piety, Medicine, Mentalities |
| Abstract | Dis/ability has recently gained importance as a fundamental approach to cultures and societies. Living with chronic pain, or living through painful experiences, has not been regarded systematically from the point of view of disability history. However, 'pain' clearly had its place within medieval culture. Taking into account pain and suffering as central aspects of physical and mental illness or impairment allows us to take a closer look at the meanings of corporal difference and mental disturbation in the Middle Ages: Being in pain could be accepted, required, rejected or healed. We want to look at different forms, spaces, and narrations of 'pain' and its cure within medieval culture. |