IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1205: Cripping Normative Time: Being and Becoming Disabled in Medieval Europe

Organisers:	Ninon Dubourg, Laboratoire Identités Cultures et Territoires (ICT), Université Diderot Paris 7 Adelheid Russenberger, School of History, Queen Mary, University London
Moderator/Chair:	Adelheid Russenberger, School of History, Queen Mary, University London
Paper 1205-a	Boundaries between Age, Health, Ability, and Work: Aging in Medieval England (Language: English) Wendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology & Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia Index terms: Daily Life, Medicine
Paper 1205-b	Drawing the Borders of Crip Time in Women's Monastic Life, c. 1200-1300 (Language: English) Amelia Kennedy, Department of History, Yale University Index terms: Gender Studies, Medicine, Religious Life
Abstract	Disability disrupts and challenges normative notions of time and personal development, just as the progress of time leads to impairment. These papers explore how time itself and social expectations of an individual's life-time in medieval Europe could disable individuals; and consider how a Disabled individual's own experience of time could challenge the artificial boundaries of normative time.