IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1020: The Body and the Text: Medical Humanities and Medieval Literature, c. 1150-1550, I
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO) / Medical Humanities Research Centre (MHRC), Swansea University |
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| Organisers: | Laura Kalas Williams, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Alison Williams, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Wendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology & Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia |
| Paper 1020-a | Health Narratives: Rabelais and the Pox (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Medicine |
| Paper 1020-b | ‘Ye die for dole’: Mental Health and Social Reform in Piers Plowman (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Medicine |
| Paper 1020-c | Beyond Magic: Maladies and Remedies in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Medicine |
| Abstract | This panel is one in a series of sessions which seeks to investigate how medicine, health, and wellbeing are represented in medieval literature, and how literary texts from this period contribute to training and practice in the Medical Humanities. This panel focuses on issues of mental health, psychological pain, melancholic suffering, and 'unseen' medical conditions, as they play out in medieval texts. Using later medieval literary texts, as well as Old Norse-Icelandic poetry, the session interrogates concepts such as the emotions, the affectivity of pain, and the healer, and asks how current notions of disability and social responsibility interact. |