Medica at Kalamazoo 2010

At the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 13-16, 2010 at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan), Medica will sponsor the following session:

Regimens of Health: Housebooks and Everyday Medicine

Organizer and Presider: William H. York (Portland State University)

• Efraim Lev (University of Haifa), “Mediators between Theoretical and Practical Medieval Medical Knowledge: Notebooks in the Cairo Genizah and their Importance”
• Donna Trembinski (St. Francis Xavier University), “Household Cures for Common Pain”
• Sarah Matthews (University of Iowa), “Bloodletting in Monastic Customaries”
• Iona McCleery (University of Leeds), “Preserving the Health of Body, State and Soul: Recipes and Regimen in the Commonplace Book of King Duarte of Portugal (1433-38)”