IMC 2024: Sessions

Session 735: Exploring Medieval Health Crises, II: Materia Medica

Sponsor:	Medica: Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages
Organiser:	Anna M. Peterson, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cantabria
Moderator/Chair:	Winston Black, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia
Paper 735-a	Crisis of the Senses: Synesthetic Healing and Health Discourses in Isabel de Villena's Vita Christi (Language: English) Alba Lara Granero, Department of Hispanic Studies, Brown University Index terms: Gender Studies, Medicine and Religious Life
Paper 735-b	Mineral materia medica: Sources and Methods of the Lapidary Trade in Medieval and Early Modern England (Language: English) Nichola Harris, Department of Social Science, History & Education, State University of New York, Ulster Index terms: Medicine and Science
Abstract	From epidemics and famine to barber surgeons and midwives, healing during the Middle Ages represented the ultimate response to social and personal crises. While the medieval medical experience was often a tale of hardship and loss, historians of medicine continue to demonstrate that healing knowledge and practice in this period also revealed remarkable resilience, practicality, and innovation. In these sessions, Medica hopes to explore how society and individuals coped with health crises and the healing interventions that resulted from these events. Session II will explore what remains from healing, from texts to prostheses.