IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1342: Expressive Bodies: Visible Illness, Visible Health, II

Sponsor:	'Hermeneutics of the Visible Body: Conceptualisations & Practices in Medieval Medicine in the Latin Tradition'
Organiser:	Montserrat Cabré i Pairet, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cantabria
Moderator/Chair:	Montserrat Cabré i Pairet, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cantabria
Paper 1342-a	The Consul and the Leper: Illness in Administrative Texts (Language: English) Anna Peterson, Independent Scholar, Valladolid Index terms: Administration, Lay Piety, Medicine, Social History
Paper 1342-b	Diseases 'of Manifest Appearance' in the Kitāb al-Malakī: Between Theory and Practice (Language: English) Anna Gili, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari, Università degli Studi di Padova Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine, Science
Paper 1342-c	Sex and Appearance: Making Gender Visible in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Paloma Moral de Calatrava, Departamento de Enfermería, Universidad de Murcia Index terms: Gender Studies, Medicine, Sexuality
Abstract	These sessions will explore, from a variety of disciplines, the visibility of some 'actions of the body', their relevance in medieval cultures, and how they were interpreted and acted upon by a variety of agents. From the presence or absence of ulcers, buboes, or facial hair to the appearance of the skin or the shape of the genitals, bodily surfaces played a central role in medical and religious understandings of the body and aspects of social life.