IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1240: Health and Medicine in the Early Medieval West, I: Situating Medical Texts and Practices
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 14.15-15.45
Organisers: | Claire Burridge, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Zubin Mistry, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh |
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Moderator/Chair: | Claire Burridge, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
Paper 1240-a | The Female Patient, the Physician, and Medical Responsibility in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Medicine, Women's Studies |
Paper 1240-b | Teraupetica (sic) : Manuscript Context and Christian Ideology in an Early Medieval Book of Medical Recipes (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine, Theology |
Paper 1240-c | 'Mirubalanus est genus coriote nascitur in egypto': Mapping Pharmaceutical Provenance in Early Medieval Recipe Collections (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Medicine |
Abstract | Despite important new work, early medieval medicine still remains quarantined from the mainstream of early medieval historiography. The aim of these sessions is to diagnose and treat this historiographical 'otherness' by using health and medicine as ways of exploring early medieval societies. This first session focuses on situating medical texts, traditions and practices. Papers will use medical texts to explore a range of questions including the relationship between practical medicine and Christian ideology, gender and medical practice, the nature of learning, and connections across space and time. |