IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 101: Anglo-Saxon Life Cycles, I: Medical Perspectives on Ageing, Gender, and Physical Change
Monday 3 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Thijs Porck, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit Leiden Harriet Soper, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester |
| Paper 101-a | Young Dancers, Old Spinsters: The Ages of Man and the Ages of Woman in Early Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Medicine |
| Paper 101-b | Treating Age in Anglo-Saxon Medical Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Medicine |
| Paper 101-c | 'Stæppe þonne þríwa ofer þá byrgenne': Images of Life and Death in Early Medieval Obstretic Incantations (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Medicine |
| Abstract | This session is the first of three sessions that focus on the role of 'age' in relation to this year's IMC theme 'Otherness'. Paper -a provides an overview of the Ages of Man tradition in the writings and art of Anglo-Saxon England, before calling attention to a unique depiction of a fourfold division of life featuring women. Paper -b addresses the degree to which age is a factor in Anglo-Saxon medical texts. Paper-c reviews Anglo-Saxon charms for childbirth within the context of other early Germanic obstetric incantations |