Colloquium – Must see panels at IMCL – 3-6 July 2017 – on ‘Otherness’
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| Session | 1018 |
| Title | Exceptionally Healthy?: Exploring Disease, Disfigurement, and Disability as the Norm in Medieval Culture |
| Date/Time | Wednesday 5 July 2017: 09.00-10.30 |
| Sponsor | Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University / Wellcome ‘Effaced’ Project, Swansea University |
| Organiser | Patricia E. Skinner, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University |
| Moderator/Chair | Elma Brenner, Wellcome Library, London |
| Paper 1018-a | Epilepsy and Otherness: The Prophet and His Detractors (Language: English) Hillary Burgardt, Department of Classics, Ancient History & Egyptology, Swansea University Index Terms: Medicine; Rhetoric; Sermons and Preaching; Social History |
| Paper 1018-b | ‘Normality’ and the ‘Other’ at the End of the World: Sickness and Disability in the Passio Olavi (Language: English) Karl Christian Alvestad, Department of History, University of Winchester Index Terms: Medicine; Religious Life; Social History |
| Paper 1018-c | Looking Strange: A Positive Asset? (Language: English) Patricia E. Skinner, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Index Terms: Medicine; Religious Life; Social History |
| Abstract | Engaging with the problematic category ‘others’, this sessions takes as its starting point the sheer ubiquity of sick, disfigured and disabled persons in medieval narrative and legal texts, and ask whether it is tenable to propose good health as a ‘normal’ human state between 500 and 1500CE. The panellists take a queer view that challenges the paradigmatic position of those who were sick, disfigured or incapacitated as excluded or ‘on the margins’, and instead illustrates the necessity of inclusion of these groups in discourses of power and piety. |
| Session | 1110 |
| Title | ‘For I am a woman, ignorant, weak, and frail’: Feminising Death and Disease in the Later Middle Ages |
| Date/Time | Wednesday 5 July 2017: 11.15-12.45 |
| Organiser | Victoria Baker, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Rachael Gillibrand, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds | |
| Moderator/Chair | Rachael Gillibrand, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1110-a | Death and the Maiden: Exploring the Feminisation of Death (Language: English) Victoria Baker, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Index Terms: Daily Life; Gender Studies |
| Abstract | Within late medieval society, to be valued was to look and behave according to the societal ‘norm’ – dependency was largely represented as a feminine trait, whereas to be independent was to be masculine. How then did medieval people respond to deviations from these gendered expectations as a result of death (or dying) and chronic diseases? This session will consider the feminisation of death and disease through an interdisciplinary lens, in order to answer questions about the perceived ‘feminine’ dependency of the marginal ‘third state’ between being fully healthy and fully sick (i.e. to be dying or diseased). It will consider the contradictory nature of disease and the female response to death and disease as elements of daily life which were (largely) out of their control; the effect of death, disability, and disease on medieval constructions of masculinity; and whether – if death and disease dehumanise the body – is it even important to consider the effect of these states on an individual’s gendered identity? |
| Session | 1118 |
| Title | Social Exclusion: Leprosy, Madness, and Wardrobe Malfunctions |
| Date/Time | Wednesday 5 July 2017: 11.15-12.45 |
| Organiser | IMC Programming Committee |
| Moderator/Chair | Patricia E. Skinner, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University |
| Paper 1118-a | The Transitory Convention of Madness in Arthurian Literature (Language: English) Erwann Hollevoet, Faculteit Letteren, KU Leuven / Group for Early Modern Studies, Universiteit Gent Index Terms: Language and Literature – Middle English; Medicine; Philosophy; Social History |
| Paper 1118-b | Clothing as a Means of Exclusion in Wolfram’s Parzival (Language: English) Alissa Theiss, Institut für Deutsche Philologie des Mittelalters, Philipps-Universität Marburg Index Terms: Daily Life; Gender Studies; Language and Literature – German; Mentalities |
| Paper 1118-c | ‘…with fleschelie lust sa maculait…’: Leprosy as Otherness in R. Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid (Language: English) Maria Luisa Maggioni, Dipartimento di Scienze linguistiche e letterature straniere, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano Index Terms: Language and Literature – Middle English; Religious Life |
| Abstract | Paper -a: When Jacques Derrida in Cogito and the History of Madness denounced Michel Foucault’s project of providing the madman with a voice as the ‘greatest merit but also the very infeasibility of his book’ on the basis of its reliance on the reason-dominated language of philosophical tradition, he could have irrevocably silenced those madmen that have been exclusionary prohibited from participating within our constitutively reasonable society. However, there are other types of language that escape the constitutive dominance of reason and periods of history that preclude the exclusion of madness by reason and thus allow the true voice of madness to be heard. The voice of madness is not merely awakened in Arthurian literature; it also reveals the performative construction of medieval identificatory categories, as madness functions as a transitory literary convention within the construction of Arthurian knightly identity. Paper -b: Paper -c: |
| Session | 1218 |
| Title | Leprosy and Power in the High Middle Ages |
| Date/Time | Wednesday 5 July 2017: 14.15-15.45 |
| Sponsor | Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Organiser | Katie Phillips, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Moderator/Chair | Elma Brenner, Wellcome Library, London |
| Paper 1218-a | From Heinrich to Tristan: The Changing Function of Lepers in Middle High German Literature (Language: English) Madelon Köhler-Busch, Department of Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Platteville Index Terms: Canon Law; Language and Literature – German; Pagan Religions; Social History |
| Paper 1218-b | ‘The Conspicuous Patron of Lepers’?: Lepers and the King in the 12th and Early 13th Centuries (Language: English) Paul Webster, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University Index Terms: Medicine; Politics and Diplomacy; Religious Life |
| Paper 1218-c | Locus (in)honestus: Early Franciscan Attitudes towards the Leper Hospital (Language: English) Edward Sutcliffe, Department of Religion & Theology, University of Bristol Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Hagiography; Religious Life |
| Abstract | The papers in this session will explore the relationship between lepers and authority, focussing particularly on England and France in the central Middle Ages. The complex and ambiguous perceptions of the disease resulted in similarly complicated responses, both towards individuals diagnosed with leprosy, and towards groups of lepers living in dedicated leper houses. The session will explore the way in which lepers may have used their diagnosis to their advantage, and perhaps exploited their ‘Otherness’. In addition, the responses of kings and legal bodies are examined as a means of understanding contemporary reactions to leprosy. |
| Session | 1240 |
| Title | Health and Medicine in the Early Medieval West, I: Situating Medical Texts and Practices |
| Date/Time | Wednesday 5 July 2017: 14.15-15.45 |
| Organiser | Claire Burridge, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
| Zubin Mistry, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh | |
| Moderator/Chair | Claire Burridge, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1240-a | The Female Patient, the Physician, and Medical Responsibility in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Caroline Musgrove, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge Index Terms: Daily Life; Gender Studies; Medicine; Women’s Studies |
| Paper 1240-b | Teraupetica (sic) : Manuscript Context and Christian Ideology in an Early Medieval Book of Medical Recipes (Language: English) Arsenio Ferraces-Rodríguez, Departamento de Letras, Universidade da Coruña Index Terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography; Medicine; Theology |
| Paper 1240-c | ‘Mirubalanus est genus coriote nascitur in egypto’: Mapping Pharmaceutical Provenance in Early Medieval Recipe Collections (Language: English) Jeffrey Doolittle, Department of History, Fordham University Index Terms: Daily Life; Medicine |
| Abstract | Despite important new work, early medieval medicine still remains quarantined from the mainstream of early medieval historiography. The aim of these sessions is to diagnose and treat this historiographical ‘otherness’ by using health and medicine as ways of exploring early medieval societies. This first session focuses on situating medical texts, traditions and practices. Papers will use medical texts to explore a range of questions including the relationship between practical medicine and Christian ideology, gender and medical practice, the nature of learning, and connections across space and time. |
| Session | 1319 |
| Title | Body, Soul, and Otherness, II: Religious and Medical Definitions of Mental and Physical Difference |
| Date/Time | Wednesday 5 July 2017: 16.30-18.00 |
| Sponsor | ‘The Body in the City’ Consortium & Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Tampere |
| Organiser | Jenni Kuuliala, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Tampere |
| Moderator/Chair | Gordon Whyte, School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
| Paper 1319-a | Demonic Possession and the Physical, Spiritual, and Social ‘Other’ (Language: English) Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Tampere Index Terms: Hagiography; Lay Piety; Medicine; Mentalities |
| Paper 1319-b | Effacing Demons: Ritual and Medical Care in Medieval Drama (Language: English) Andreea-Dana Marculescu, Department of Women’s & Gender Studies, University of Oklahoma Index Terms: Language and Literature – French or Occitan; Lay Piety; Medicine; Mentalities |
| Paper 1319-c | Sainthood, Physical Deviance, and Otherness in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Jenni Kuuliala, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Tampere Index Terms: Hagiography; Lay Piety; Medicine; Social History |
| Abstract | Religion and medicine were in many ways intertwined in the Middle Ages, both in explaining deviance, illness, and impairment as well as in the healing practices. Religion and medicine also offered methods, which sometimes overlapped and sometimes contradicted each other, for cure and for ways to integrate deviant people back into a community. This session analyses healing as a cultural practice; the focal questions are how religious and medical explanations intermingled in the construction of ‘the Other’, and in what ways they complemented or competed in explaining, categorising, and treating different mental and bodily conditions. |
| Session | 1340 |
| Title | Health and Medicine in the Early Medieval West, II: Beyond Medical Texts |
| Date/Time | Wednesday 5 July 2017: 16.30-18.00 |
| Organiser | Claire Burridge, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
| Zubin Mistry, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh | |
| Moderator/Chair | Richard Sowerby, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh |
| Paper 1340-a | Incorporating Palaeopathological Evidence in the Study of Early Medieval Health and Medicine (Language: English) Claire Burridge, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Index Terms: Archaeology – General; Daily Life; Medicine; Technology |
| Paper 1340-b | Soul-Searching: Some Carolingian Answers (Language: English) Meg Leja, History Department, Binghamton University Index Terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance); Medicine; Theology |
| Paper 1340-c | ‘There are three reasons why sterilitas affects women’: Thinking about Fertility in Carolingian Monasteries (Language: English) Zubin Mistry, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh Index Terms: Biblical Studies; Gender Studies; Learning (The Classical Inheritance); Medicine |
| Abstract | Despite important new work, early medieval medicine still remains quarantined from the mainstream of early medieval historiography. The aim of these sessions is to diagnose and treat this historiographical ‘otherness’ by using health and medicine as ways of exploring early medieval societies. This second session uses medical and non-medical texts to explore ideas about body and soul as well as non-textual approaches to investigate the health of early medieval populations. |
| Session | 1508 |
| Title | Crusading, Identity, and Otherness, I: Women, Children, and the Old |
| Date/Time | Thursday 6 July 2017: 09.00-10.30 |
| Sponsor | Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades |
| Organiser | Kathryn Hurlock, Department of History, Politics & Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Sini Kangas, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Tampere | |
| Jason T. Roche, Department of History, Politics & Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University | |
| Moderator/Chair | Jason T. Roche, Department of History, Politics & Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Paper 1508-a | The Young and The Old – Feeble Crusaders?: Age in the 12th- and 13th-Century Sources of the Crusades (Language: English) Sini Kangas, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Tampere Index Terms: Crusades; Pagan Religions |
| Paper 1508-b | Women and Children as Victims of the Baltic Crusades: A Case of ‘Ritual Violence’? (Language: English) Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen, Institut for Kultur og Globale Studier / Cultural Encounters in Pre-Modern Societies, Aalborg Universitet Index Terms: Crusades; Pagan Religions |
| Paper 1508-c | The Damascene Frontier, 1099-1128: Frankish / Turkish Conflict and Peacemaking during the Post-First Crusade Era (Language: English) Nicholas E. Morton, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University Index Terms: Crusades; Military History |
| Abstract | In the first of a series of linked sessions on the interrelated themes of crusading, identity, and otherness, Sini Kangas explores the understanding of youth and old age in the 12th- and 13th-century chronicles and chansons of the Crusades, showing how age is employed to shed light on specific contexts, offer additional information, and emphasise small but important details. Tørben Nielsen discusses the Christian expansion in pagan Livonia and Estonia between the years 1184 and 1227 as reported in the Chronicon Livoniae, and seeks to understand why women and children appear repeatedly in the text as the numberless and nameless victims of the crusading warfare. Nic Morton considers the Damascene frontier during the first three decades of the 12th century, and explains why the city’s ruler, Tughtakin, was reluctant to risk a direct confrontation with the newly established Frankish settlers. |
| Session | 1625 |
| Title | Apocalyptic Alterity: Otherness and the End Times |
| Date/Time | Thursday 6 July 2017: 11.15-12.45 |
| Organiser | Brett E. Whalen, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Moderator/Chair | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen |
| Respondent | James Palmer, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
| Paper 1625-a | Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Crusading Soldiers of Christ at the End of Time (Language: English) Matthew Gabriele, Department of Religion & Culture, Virginia Technical Institute Index Terms: Crusades; Historiography – Medieval; Theology |
| Paper 1625-b | Church, Empire, and Apocalypse in the 13th Century (Language: English) Brett E. Whalen, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Historiography – Medieval; Political Thought |
| Paper 1625-c | Heavenly Hermaphrodites: Sexual Difference and the End of Time (Language: English) Leah DeVun, Department of History, Rutgers University, New Jersey Index Terms: Gender Studies; Historiography – Medieval; Sexuality |
| Abstract | Medieval Europe’s apocalyptic imagination provided a compelling field of ideas, texts, and images for Christians to project and contest the norms of their society, framed by the envisioned progress of time from its beginning to its end. This proposed panel will explore some of the ways that apocalyptic and eschatological views of salvation history informed attitudes towards the ‘self’ and ‘others’, past, present, and future, shaping religious, political, and sexual identities. The papers and commentary will also suggest some of the ways that studies of apocalypticism during the Middle Ages have changed over recent years, looking past long-standing debates and issues in the field (e.g. the year 1000, the radical nature of millennialism) to embrace new questions and problems relating to the significance of the apocalypse for medieval intellectual life, society, and spirituality. |
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