Wake the Blog! Looking back at 2015 . . .

Medica's blog may have been resting, but its members have not!

2015 in Review:
As you'll recall, 2015 was a very good year for the society. In May at the Medieval Congress at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Medica honored one our own, sponsoring three sessions and hosting a reception in recognition of the academic research and mentorship of Linda Ehrsam Voigts, Professor of English Emerita, University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Medica honoree Linda Ehrsam Voigts

Among Professor Voigts’s many contributions to the study of medicine are her extensive work with Latin and vernacular medical texts from late medieval England. In addition, research in medieval medicine is heavily indebted to her for the development, with Patricia Deery Kurtz, of a database of 10,000 texts and prologues searchable from the website of The National Library of Medicine, "Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English (eVK2),"and for the publication of an electronic version of Thorndike and Kibre, "Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin (eTK)."

The sessions:
Future Directions for Research in Medieval Medicine (A Roundtable)
Presider: M. Teresa Tavormina, Michigan State University

Panelists:

Medica Reception for Dr. Voigts

Luke Demaitre, School of Medicine, University of Virginia
Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki

Alpo Honkapohja, University of Zurich

Monica H. Green, Arizona State University

Lea T. Olsan, University of Louisiana at Monroe

In Honor of Linda Ehrsam Voigts I:
Theory and Practice in Latin and Vernacular Medieval Medical Texts 

Presider: Patricia Deery Kurtz, Independent Scholar

What Hath eVK Wrought? Connecting the Vernacular to Latin, England to Europe
Monica H. Green, Arizona State University

“It be a solace to myne age”: Revisiting the Vernacular Versions of Bernard de Gordon’s Prognostic

Luke Demaitre, School of Medicine, University of Virginia

New Light on the Voigts-Sloane Group of Medical and Alchemical Manuscripts

Alpo Honkapohja, University of Zurich

In Honor of Linda Ehrsam Voigts II:
Theory and Practice in Latin and Vernacular Medieval Medical Texts
Presider: Jake Walsh Morrissey, Trent University

Learned Genres of Late Medieval Medical Writing: Commentaries and Their Afterlives

Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki

The Gynecology of the Friars in Fifteenth-Century England

Peter Murray Jones, King’s College, Cambridge University

Equine Medicine in New York Public Library MS Spencer 9

Paul Acker, Saint Louis University

Many thanks to all the participants!