IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 828: Cultures of Healing in Late Antiquity and the (Mostly) Early Middle Ages, IV: Healing beyond the 'Classics'
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | ReMeDHe - Working Group for Religion, Medicine, Disability, Health & Healing in Late Antiquity / Beyond Beccaria Project |
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| Organisers: | Claire Burridge, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Carine van Rhijn, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Moderator/Chair: | Claire Burridge, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 828-a | Classical Medical Instruments in Early Medieval Recipes: Authority, Adaptation, and Innovation (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine |
| Paper 828-b | Medicine as Wisdom and Knowledge in the Early English Kingdoms (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Medicine, Science |
| Paper 828-c | Early Medieval Healthscapes: A Manuscript Approach (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine |
| Abstract | The final session of this series investigates early medieval cultures of healing as a discrete chapter in the history of medicine. There is no doubt that the 'Classics' formed an important foundation for knowledge about ingredients and methods of healing, but here the focus is on developments that make early medieval healing unique and traditions outside those classically considered in the scholarship. We explore new uses for 'inherited' medical practices and new kinds of texts and types of healing, offering fundamental re-conceptualisations of what medicine and healing actually were, and how they should be understood as categories of knowledge. |