Medica is seeking paper proposals for
two sessions to be held at the 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies,
which will be held in Kalamazoo, Michigan from May 7-10, 2020.
1) Healing and the Healer in Medieval Popular
Culture
DESCRIPTION: This session seeks to
explore the perceptions and understandings of health maintenance, disease
prevention and treatment, medical practitioners, etc., in the practices of
healers outside the university sphere in the Middle Ages. The practices of
women healers, religious-based healers, practitioners of folk medicine, healing
saints, and other empirically-trained doctors would be ideal topics of
analysis for this session. Possible papers could examine sources like household
recipe books, legal regulations of medical practice, depictions of healing in
popular literature, artistic representations of healers, or similar sources.
2) Desire and Disease: The
Medicalization of Sex in the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:
This session is open to investigations of sexuality and medicine in the Middle
Ages. This might include papers on sexually transmitted diseases, sexual
dysfunction, methods to increase/inhibit sexual desire, or treatments to test
for or enhance fertility. Other topics could include perceptions of how
emotions of desire might affect an individual’s health, or concerns for how the
body shapes desire in various ways.
If interested, please submit an abstract of roughly 250-300
words along with a Participant Information Form (PIF), which can be found at http://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions.
Any graduate
student who has a paper accepted will be eligible to apply for Medica's Travel
Award of $100 to help expenses. All proposal materials are due by
September 15, 2019. If you have questions about either of the sessions, or would like to
submit an abstract, please direct emails to Harry York at why@pdx.edu.
Medica is also organizing a roundtable on teaching the history of medicine in the Middle Ages: New Ways to Teach Medieval Medicine
DESCRIPTION:
This roundtable
brings together scholars who will explore new tools and methods for teaching
medieval medicine. The tools and ideas presented here are intended for anyone
who might wish to include a module on health and disease in a broader course on
the Middle Ages, not only for those seeking to teach courses focused on
medieval medicine. Some speakers will examine various new digital technologies
available for use in classroom settings. Others will consider the ways in which
the history of medicine might be taught in the broader context of the global
Middle Ages.
Finally, we are also co-sponsoring a session
with Beneventan Studies:
TITLE: Medieval Interdisciplinarity: Knowledge-Transfer in
Medieval Southern Italy II: Medicine and Sciences
DESCRIPTION: The importance of Montecassino and the
Beneventan Zone in the history of the transmission of the classics for the
trivium has long been recognized. Only recently has the pivotal role of the
Zone for the history of the collection, translation, transmission and
dissemination of scientific works come to the fore. The two sessions build on
new/forthcoming publications on key Southern Italian manuscript witnesses of
this transfer asks how knowledge transfer (particular of works of the
quadrivium and medical sciences) occurred (into, within, and from the Zone), and
what was the relationship between innovative learning across the sciences.
Session II focuses new scholarship on medical and scientific learning.
For more information about this session, or to submit a
proposal, please contact Andrew J. M. Irving at a.j.m.irving@rug.nl.
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