IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1228: Ageing and Care in the Middle Ages, I: Cultural Narratives of Ageing, Health, and Illness
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Universitetet i Bergen |
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| Organisers: | Laura Cayrol Bernardo, Universidad de Oviedo Ninon Dubourg, Laboratoire Identités Cultures et Territoires (ICT), Université Diderot Paris 7 |
| Moderator/Chair: | Wendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology & Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia |
| Paper 1228-a | Ageing Women in 15th-Century Italy: Gender, Health, and (Self) Care Strategies (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Medicine, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1228-b | The Hope of Eternal Life: Theological Considerations of Healing and Care in Sedulius Scottus' De rectoribus Christianis (Language: English) Index terms: Medicine, Political Thought, Theology |
| Paper 1228-c | Old Wives / Young Brides, Crip Time / Queer Time (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Social History |
| Abstract | These sessions explore questions related to ageing and care throughout the Western Middle Ages. Their goal is to analyze various approaches to care and healing in regards to ageing or age-related conditions that took place within and beyond the domestic sphere. To do this, the ways in which care of older adults was conditioned by gender, class, and ability will be taken into account. By approaching this topic from a cross-disciplinary perspective, we aim to reveal the nuances and contradictions of past categories of senescence, setting cultural repertoire against documented lived experience and looking at topics that are still under-communicated. Part 1 will focus on cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness; part 2 will address systems and networks set up to channel caring resources in older age. |