IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1047: Reputation, Emotion, and Remembering Death and Illness
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Prato Consortium for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
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| Organiser: | Peter Francis Howard, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
| Moderator/Chair: | John Henderson, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London / School of Philosophy, History & International Studies, Monash University |
| Paper 1047-a | Recording a Place of Emotions and Violence: Mapping the Coronial Deaths of Medieval Oxfordshire (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Social History |
| Paper 1047-b | The Insania and Piety of Herimann of Nevers: Remembering a Mentally Ill Carolingian Bishop (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Medicine, Mentalities |
| Paper 1047-c | Medical Memory of Sense and Emotion by Baverio de'Bonetti (d. 1480): A Physician of Bologna (Language: English) Index terms: Medicine, Social History |
| Abstract | Serious illness and sudden or violent death were familiar aspects of medieval life, but how did people choose to remember such experiences? Linked to the Body in the City Project, this session draws on a variety of different sources from across the Middle Ages recording illness and death, including medical treatises, coroners' rolls, and forms of religious commemoration. The papers explore how the messy experiences of illness and death, and the complex emotions of those involved, could be interpreted and turned into more formal accounts of events, suitable for permanent record. |