IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 2215: Climates of Consciousness, I: Ecologies of Body and Mind

Friday 9 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	Oecologies Research Group
Organisers:	David Coley, Department of English, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia Kenna L. Olsen, Department of English, Mount Royal University, Alberta
Moderator/Chair:	Heide Estes, Department of English, Monmouth University, New York
Paper 2215-a	The Climates of Consciousness in Late Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (Language: English) David Clemis, Department of Humanities Mount Royal University Alberta Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Medicine, Philosophy, Social History
Paper 2215-b	Fish, Flower, Family: Exploring the oikos of Codex Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS Ashmole 61 (Language: English) Colin J. Keohane, Department of English, University of Victoria Kirsten Schuhmacher, Department of English, University of California, Davis Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Social History
Abstract	These sessions seek to explore how space and form - ecologies of consciousness - inform, challenge, and perpetuate reading, writing, consideration, and understanding in the medieval and early modern eras. Focusing on the 'climates' of perceptions, philosophies, and cosmologies of the premodern world, they query and explore how immediate and perceived environments created and generated texts and concepts from the medieval and early modern eras that are reliant on aspects of form, both imagined and real. How do the ecological proclivities of premodern cultures and understandings inform our exploration of the past, present, and future? This session, the first of two sponsored by the Oecologies Research Group, explores medieval and early manuscript medical texts and household anthologies, to understand how material ecologies informed the understand of the body and the mind.