IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 551: Dis/Ability in the Medieval North, I
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Disability before Disability, University of Iceland, Reykjavík / Icelandic Research Fund |
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| Organisers: | Chris Crocker, Faculty of Icelandic & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík Yoav Tirosh, Faculty of Icelandic & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ninon Dubourg, Laboratoire Identités Cultures et Territoires (ICT), Université Diderot Paris 7 |
| Paper 551-a | Disability before Disability in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas: Methodological Considerations (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 551-b | Dependency or Authority? Disability or Ability?: Care Givers and Receivers in Old English and Anglo-Latin Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Old English, Social History |
| Paper 551-c | Hearing Loss in Medieval Iceland: The Palaeopathology of a Hidden Disability (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - General, Medicine |
| Abstract | These sessions explore disability in the medieval North as a multi-factorial phenomenon. They make use of the concepts of 'embodied difference' and/or 'marked or atypical bodies' as they do not imply pre-defined notions of disability. The body is seen as something that materialises and translates physical, psychic, and intellectual differences in ways that societies identify them as deviations from what is considered 'normal' and/or 'able-bodied' in specific cultural and/or social contexts. Within this framework, the papers deal with archaeological, literary, and historical evidence, and engage with methodological challenges involved in researching disability, and accordingly also ability, in the Middle Ages. |