IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1217: Body, Soul, and Otherness, I
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Body in the City Consortium / Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval & Early Modern Studies (Trivium), University of Tampere |
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| Organiser: | Gordon Whyte, School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jenni Kuuliala, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Tampere |
| Paper 1217-a | 'Gode is þe lay, swete is þe note': The Interplay of Hearing, Sound, and Voice in Sir Orfeo (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Medicine, Performance Arts - General |
| Paper 1217-b | The Incorporation of Otherness: Alfanus of Salerno, 1065-1080 (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Medicine, Philosophy |
| Abstract | Religion and Medicine were intertwined in many ways in the Middle Ages, perhaps best seen in the interpretation of the relationships between body and soul and between moral and other forms of authority. Bonnie Millar uses the sounds evoked by the Lay of Sir Orfeo to understand how the soul and body interacted when faced by death. Gordon Whyte uses the remarkable figure of Alfanus I of Salerno to explore how Alexandrian medical concepts of the body and soul challenged a Latin culture centered on Augustine's teachings in the late 11th century. |