IMC 2020: Sessions

Session 1633: Manuscripts without Borders, II: Beyond the Borders of Medicine and Science

Organiser:	Christine Voth, Seminar für Englische Philologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Moderator/Chair:	Johanna Green, Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute, University of Glasgow
Paper 1633-a	New Frontiers in Medicine: Codicology, Vernacular Manuscripts, and Professionalised Medicine in Pre-Conquest England (Language: English) Christine Voth, Seminar für Englische Philologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine
Paper 1633-b	Chartrian Writing(s) in Salerno, 1150-1200 (Language: English) Tamar Nadav, Department of History University of Haifa / Laboratoire Identités Cultures Territoires (ICT - EA 337) Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine
Paper 1633-c	Sciences sans Frontières: Cultural Identities, Computus, and Medicine in Two Late Merovingian Manuscripts (Language: English) James Palmer, School of History, University of Nottingham Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine
Abstract	This session explores the content and context of medieval manuscripts of medicine and science. Paper -a focuses on early English manuscripts in the vernacular and how their compilation reflects their intended use. Paper -b explores the role of Chartrian thought in shaping Salernitan medicine. Paper -c offers a brief reassessment of the state of Merovingian sciences, computistics, and medicine.