IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 247: Early Medieval Medicine: Manuscripts and Materials
Monday 1 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Bethany Christiansen, Department of English, Ohio State University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Sarah Baccianti, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast |
| Paper 247-a | Bald's Leechbook and the Oribasius Latinus: Material Aspects of a Medical Text (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin, Medicine |
| Paper 247-b | Reassessing the North African Origin of the Herbal of Pseudo-Apuleius (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Medicine |
| Paper 247-c | Bane or Boon?: Blood as Medical Ingredient in Anglo-Saxon Medicine (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin, Medicine, Social History |
| Abstract | This panel inaugurates a working group of early career scholars who research non-Galenic medieval medicine. Although there have been great advances in the study of medieval medicine in the past decades, those advances have largely been made in Galenic medicine (that is, the more systematized medicine entering western Europe in the 12th century) rather than in pre-Galenic medicine (e.g. Anglo-Saxon medical codices) and non-Galenic medicine (e.g. 13th-century Welsh medical charms). We seek to redress this lacuna in scholarship with what we hope will be a perennial panel on marginal Medieval Medicine. |