IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 1725: Memory and Mental Health

Sponsor:	Premodern Health, Disease & Disability, Amsterdam University Press
Organiser:	Tyler Cloherty, Amsterdam University Press
Moderator/Chair:	Christina Lee, School of English, University of Nottingham
Paper 1725-a	Memory and Forgetfulness in Monastic Communities in Medieval Normandy (Language: English) Elma Brenner, Wellcome Library, London Index terms: Medicine, Mentalities, Monasticism
Paper 1725-b	Bad Memory as a Pedagogical Tool in the Conde Lucanor (Language: English) Vivian Mills, Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, University of Washington Index terms: Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Medicine, Mentalities
Paper 1725-c	Sane memoria, Law, and the Custom of Memory in Medieval England (Language: English) Wendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology & Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Medicine, Mentalities
Abstract	Many medieval records in both medicine and law record individuals as 'unfit' or 'unhealthy' because of a lack of a good memory, often non bonam memoriam or some variation thereon. This panel seeks to address what exactly that phrase meant, how it might impair the person, and what implications it might hold in terms of health, wealth, legal standing, and/or inheritance.