Medica, the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages, will sponsor the following paper session at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 13-16, 2010 at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan):
"Regimens of Health: Housebooks and Everyday Medicine in the Middle Ages."
The session will focus on household remedies and medical treatments that were popularly available, or described in sources such as hausbuchs, recipe collections, or writings on the regimen of health.
If you are interested in participating, or if you have any questions about the session, please contact Harry York (why@pdx.edu). Proposals for papers should include your name, the title of your paper, and a 250-300 word abstract as well as the Congress's Participant Information Form (see http://www.wmich.edu/~medinst/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF).
Deadline: September 15, 2009
William H. York, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies - Humanities
University Honors Program, Portland State University
(submitted by Harry York)
Leeds 2010
Medica, the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages, invites submissions for a panel entitled:
Healing Journeys: Travelling for Body and Soul in Medieval Culture
to be hosted at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 12-15 July 2010.
We encourage a broad interpretation of the theme from a variety of disciplines, such as history of medicine, literary studies, material culture, and religious history.
Papers may consider:
- Portable Healing
- Physiology and the Ages of Man
- Bodily and Spiritual Journeys for Healing
- Representations of the Body and Medical Healing in Otherworldly Journeys
- Medical Pilgrims and their Detractors
Please send proposals for twenty minutes papers (title and abstract of 250-500 words) by email to Virginia Langum vel23@cam.ac.uk by 1 September 2009.
For more information on the Leeds conference, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2010_call.html
(submitted by Virginia Langum)
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