IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1621: Health Identities across and within Borders
Thursday 9 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Elma Brenner, Wellcome Library, London |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Wendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology & Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia |
| Paper 1621-a | The Transmission of the Culture of Materia Medica around the Medieval Mediterranean (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Medicine, Science |
| Paper 1621-b | Crossing the Border: The Movement of Materia Medica in the Carolingian World (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine, Science |
| Paper 1621-c | Travel and Health: England and France in the Later Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Medicine, Social History |
| Abstract | This session explores the movement of medical practitioners, substances, and ideas across and within geographic borders over a broad time span. Both Burridge and Atat set medieval Europe in a global context. Burridge examines the evidence in early medieval recipe collections for the circulation of medicinal products from southeast Asia in Europe, while Atat considers the transmission of Arabic and Ottoman pharmaceutical knowledge in the Mediterranean region. Brenner and Rawcliffe's paper focuses on travel and health in late medieval England and France, especially the careers of peripatetic medical practitioners. Adaptation, translation and shifting identities, as well as borders, are prominent themes in this session. |