IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1206: Medieval Bodies Ignored, I: Humans and Animals
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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Organiser: | Sunny Harrison, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
Moderator/Chair: | Rose A. Sawyer, School of History / School of English, University of Leeds |
Paper 1206-a | Beast, Heal Thyself: Animals Treating Animals in Late Medieval Illustrated Veterinary Treatises (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Medicine, Science, Social History |
Paper 1206-b | Man's Best Friend: Animals as Mobility Aids in Late Medieval Art (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Medicine, Social History, Technology |
Paper 1206-c | Animals on Trial: The Beastly Problem of Criminal Culpability (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Medicine, Social History, Theology |
Abstract | Since the publication of Caroline Walker Bynum's seminal 'Why all the fuss about the body? A Medievalist's Perspective' (Critical Inquiry, 22.1 (1993), 1-33), the discourse around bodies as historical bodies has flourished. These sessions will pick out, from the many discourses that medieval people and modern historians have used to discuss the body, a few of the notes that are sometimes overlooked. This session, the first of a linked pair, grapples with the varied ways that the boundaries between human and non-human bodies shifted and were manipulated during the Middle Ages, though the examination of animals as medical healers of other animals, animals as supportive physical aids to humans, and animals as the targets of legal action. |