9:45-10:30: Charles Burnet (Warburg Institute, London) The Arabic-Latin Astrological Tradition of Disease Names and Descriptions
10:30-11:15: Stefania Fortuna (University of Ancona) Disease names in the Latin translations from Middle Ages to Renaissance
11:15-11:45: Coffee Break
11:45-12:30: Iolanda Ventura (University of Bologna) Constructing a Pathological Vocabulary in the Medical School of Salerno
12:30-14:30: Sandwich lunch
14:30-15:15: Outi Merisalo (University of Jyväskylä) “Gręce liquoides, latine lupus id est strangulatio”. The names of the diseases in the pseudo-Galenic De spermate
15:15-16:00: Alessandra Foscat (KU Leuven University) Disease lexicon in Middle Ages: Two case studies
Info and registration at: Contact: alessandra.foscati@kuleuven.be This workshop is part of the activities of the SIDELINE project (https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/qlvl/projects/current/sideline/
1) LE CORPS SAIN (1) : FRONTIÈRES ENTRE SAVOIRS ET SURNATUREL
14h00-14h20 Anne Bonzon
Les curés de campagne, distributeurs de remèdes (France, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)
14h20-14h30 Questions
14h30-14h50 Madline Favre
Implication des ecclésiastiques dans la gestion de la santé de leurs paroissiens : le cas de Jean-Maurice Clément (1736-1810) en Valais et sa « chasse aux pratiques superstitieuses »
14h50-15h00 Questions
15h00-15h30 Pause
15h30-15h50 Marco Schnyder
Tomber malades en haute montagne – Santé, alimentation, environnement et foi (Hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernard, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles)
15h50-16h00 Questions
16h00-16h20 Kristof Smeyers
(Dis)locating « folk medicine » in the nineteenth-century edgelands
16h20-16h30 Questions
16h30-17h00 Discussion 1
Dès 19h30 Repas du soir commun
VENDREDI 2 SEPTEMBRE
2) LE CORPS SAINT : CONTRÔLE DES CORPS ET SALUT DES ÂMES
10h00-10h20 Dorothee Rippmann
Tauber Donations pieuses et relations entre la ville et la campagne : le cas de l’église collégiale à Bischofszell (TG) (XVe-XVIe siècles)
10h20-10h30 Questions
10h30-10h50 Alessandro Ratti
Des Alpes aux plaines, de la terre au ciel : les messes des dévots pour le salut des âmes des confrères défunts (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)
10h50-11h00 Questions
11h00-11h20 Tine van Osselaer
Salutary suffering and miraculous cures. The Catholic patient in the nineteenth and early twentienth centuries
11h20-11h30 Questions
11h30-11h50 Ninon Dubourg
Jeûne et pénurie d’huile d’olive dans les régions froides au XVe siècle – santé et salut par la grâce de la Pénitencerie Apostolique
11h50-12h00 Questions
12h00-12h30 Discussion 2
12h30-14h30 Repas de midi commun
3) LE CORPS SAIN (2) : SOIN DU CORPS, SOIN DE LA TERRE
14h30-14h50 Omar Borettaz et Mauro Cortelazzo
Remèdes naturels et objets votifs sur les bancs d’un apothicaire de la fin du Moyen Âge, d’après une fresque dans le château d’Issogne, en Vallée d’Aoste
14h50-15h00 Questions
15h00-15h20 Damien Jeanne
Malades chroniques et malades temporaires : l’encadrement religieux par la culture du soin dans la campagne normande à la fin du Moyen Âge
15h20-15h30 Questions
15h30-16h00 Pause
16h00-16h20 Julie van Parys-Rotondi
Soigner la terre, les hommes et les âmes dans les Bokes of Husbandry de la première modernité anglaise
16h20-16h30 Questions
16h30-17h00 Discussion 3
17h30-18h00 Assemblée générale de la SSHR Repas du soir libre
SAMEDI 3 SEPTEMBRE 4) AUX SEUILS DE LA VIE : NAISSANCE ET SALUT
9h30-9h50 Paul André Havé
Soin des âmes, contrôle des corps. L’organisation des pratiques des sage-femmes dans la Province d’Alsace à la fin du XVIIIe siècle
9h50-10h00 Questions
10h00-10h20 Charlotte Brewster
« Neighbourly » midwives and religious diversity in rural Essex and Suffolk
10h20-10h30 Questions
10h30-10h50 Suzanne Martin-Vigier
Objets passeurs d’âmes. Vierges d’accouchée – cires de deuil : la problématique du salut aux deux extrémités de la vie
10h50-11h00 Questions
11h00-11h30 Discussion 4
11h30-12h00 Conclusion (organisateur·rices) et discussion générale
Byzantine Bodies, I: The Byzantine Body and Performativity
Date/Time
Tuesday 5 July 2022: 09.00-10.30
Sponsor
Cardiff Centre for Late Antique Religion & Culture, Cardiff University
Organiser
Larisa Vilimonovic, Department of History, University of Belgrade
Moderator/Chair
Shaun Tougher, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University
Paper 510-a
Bodily Performance in Ritual Contexts: Healing the Sick in Byzantine Hagiography (Language: English) Stavroula Constantinou, Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals, University of Cyprus, Nicosia Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Gender Studies; Hagiography
Paper 510-b
The Scribal Act as a Gendering Act in the Byzantine Lives of ‘Cross-Dressing’ Saints (Language: English) Julie Van Pelt, Vakgroep Letterkunde, Afdeling Grieks, Universiteit Gent Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Gender Studies; Hagiography
Paper 510-c
Byzantine Femininities between Discipline and Punishment: Anthropology of the Female Body in Byzantium (Language: English) Larisa Vilimonovic, Department of History, University of Belgrade Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Gender Studies; Women’s Studies
Abstract
This is the first session in a series of panels on Byzantine Bodies. The session aims to map how concrete collective or individual subjects form their identities through various discursive processes (those that constitute religion, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender). It will focus on the performative aspects of gender in Byzantium, on gender fluidity, and on readings beyond binaries. The session also maps Byzantine masculinities and femininities and their relationships to normative power structures.
Session
716
Title
Breaking Down Disciplinary Borders: Connecting Historical and Archaeological Research, III – Medieval Dental Calculus, A Treasure Trove of Information
Date/Time
Tuesday 5 July 2022: 14.15-15.45
Organiser
Claire Burridge, Department of History, University of Sheffield
Moderator/Chair
Alison I. Beach, School of History, University of St Andrews
Paper 716-a
Dental Calculus as a Window on Medieval Urban Religion: An Interdisciplinary Study of Leicester’s Augustinian Friary (Language: English) Anita Radini, Department of Archaeology, University of York Index Terms: Archaeology – General; Religious Life
Paper 716-b
Health and Healing Remedies in Medieval Leprosaria: The Contribution of Dental Calculus Analysis (Language: English) Elena Fiorin, Dipartimento di Scienze odontostomatologiche e maxillo facciali, Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ Index Terms: Archaeology – General; Medicine
Paper 716-c
Dental Calculus as a Proxy for Oral Health in Medieval Danes (Language: English) Liam Lanigan, GLOBE Institute, Københavns Universitet Index Terms: Archaeology – General; Medicine
Abstract
Analyses of dental calculus (mineralised dental plaque) are revolutionising the ways we can study past populations. The proposed session showcases new research involving the latest analytical methods, from light microscopy to palaeoproteomic and genomic techniques. Each paper addresses a different topic in the field, highlighting the ways in which dental calculus analysis can contribute to our understanding of oral health, medical practices, and monastic lifeways. Taken collectively, the papers demonstrate that this substance provides an unrivalled and, until recently, largely untapped resource for exploring the health and lived experiences of medieval individuals, and especially those unrecorded by the texts.
Session
806
Title
Borders and Bodies in Early Medieval Riddles and Beyond
Date/Time
Tuesday 5 July 2022: 16.30-18.00
Organiser
IMC Programming Committee
Moderator/Chair
Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London
Paper 806-a
Liminal Voices of Disabled Subjectivity in the Exeter Book Riddles (Language: English) Margaret McCurry, Department of English, New York University Index Terms: Hagiography; Language and Literature – Old English; Literacy and Orality
Paper 806-b
‘[He] sægde him to sorge þæt hy sige-lease / þone grenan wong ofgiefan sceoldan’: The Porous Borders of Affect, Race, and Sovereignty in Guthlac A / B and Exeter Riddle 10 (Language: English) Adam Darisse, Department of English, New York University Index Terms: Hagiography; Language and Literature – Old English; Mentalities; Sermons and Preaching
Paper 806-c
Defining the Boundaries of Animate and Inanimate in the Riddles of Tatwine (Language: English) Alexandra Zhirnova, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge Index Terms: Language and Literature – Latin; Language and Literature – Old English; Rhetoric
Paper 806-d
Cynewulf’s Questioning of the Borders of Script and Orality in The Fates of the Apostles (Language: English) Jacob Wayne Runner, Institute of Liberal Arts & Science, Kanazawa University Index Terms: Language and Literature – Old English; Literacy and Orality; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract
Paper -a: With their repeated imperatives to ‘saga hwæt ic hatte’ (‘say what I am called’), the first-person riddles of the Old English Exeter Book demand a dialogical relation between reader and speaker, subject and object, self and other. This task is complicated, however, by the fact that the speakers of the Exeter Book riddles are, in fact, not subjects, but objects that portray themselves in a variety of straitened circumstances – as impoverished foundlings, as being impaired physically and mentally, as dejected outcasts on the brink of death – in short, as disabled. This paper employs the theoretical lens of disability studies to examine the themes of marginalisation, expiration, and objectification that are voiced by the first-person speakers of the Exeter Book riddles and posits liminality as a conceptual space for readers to consider disabled subjectivity.
Paper -b: Guthlac A/B and Exeter Riddle 10 are concerned with the porous borders of celestial/terrestrial spaces, Anglo-Saxon/indigenous identities, and affect/action. Ælfric’s ‘Sermo de Memoria Sanctorum’, which articulates the Eight Principal Vices and Virtues and links affect to claims of bodily and spatial sovereignty, offers a theological framework that complicates previous analyses of the way Anglo-Saxon’s perceived these borders. This paper investigates these texts – at the border between the genres of hagiography, poetry, riddle, and homily – and how theology was employed to erect and police the borders of bodies, spaces, and identities in Anglo-Saxon England.
Paper -c: This paper examines the works of Tatwine, an 8th-century Anglo-Latin grammarian and poet, whose collection of 40 Enigmata employs the paradoxical qualities of the riddle for a semantic investigation of the linguistic boundaries between animate and inanimate things. By comparing the riddles to his and others’ grammatical works, this paper aims to show Tatwine’s use of poetic devices to replace the harsh boundary between corporalia and incorporalia of antique grammarians with a continuum in which they can co-exist, reflecting a more general change in contemporary English thought.
Paper -d: The four Old English poems that contain the runic Cyn(e)wulf ‘signature’ have continuously provoked debate as to the characters’ intratextual function and interpretation. Although a case has been made for alternative words indicated by initialisms (Niles 2006), the prevailing view is that they are logogrammatic and instantiate traditional runic names (e.g. Birkett 2017; Page 1999; Symons 2016). This paper presents a semiotic assessment of a single Cynewulf poem (‘The Fates of the Apostles’) and argues that the text’s inclusion of runes amongst the bookhand alphabet characters achieves a purposeful destabilization of the associative borders between the different scripts and between ‘oral’ and ‘transcribed’.
Session
1005
Title
Social Experiences of Disability
Date/Time
Wednesday 6 July 2022: 09.00-10.30
Organiser
Ninon Dubourg, Départment d’Histoire, Université de Liège
Adelheid Russenberger, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London
Moderator/Chair
Ninon Dubourg, Départment d’Histoire, Université de Liège
Paper 1005-a
Dante’s City: Unjust Exile and Disabled Life beyond the Border (Language: English) Catherine Bloomer, Department of Italian / Institute for Comparative Literature & Society, Columbia University Index Terms: Language and Literature – Italian; Medicine
Paper 1005-b
The Borders of Disability and Ability, Ill Health and Health in Medieval Poland (Language: English) Magdalena Matczak, Department of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology, University of Liverpool Index Terms: Medicine; Social History
Paper 1005-c
Ill Health as a Space of Communication between Man and God in Ancient Rus’ (Language: English) Natalia Pelezneva, Index Terms: Hagiography; Medicine; Mentalities
Abstract
Disablility and impairment were experienced in, and created by, an individual’s social context. These three papers consider how Disability was constructed and used in three diverse contexts – Dante’s Florence, medieval Poland, and the medieval Rus’. Despite the geographical range, all three papers demonstrate how the experience of Disability was informed as much by an individual’s social position as much as the nature of their impairment.
Session
1105
Title
Disability in Literature
Date/Time
Wednesday 6 July 2022: 11.15-12.45
Organiser
Ninon Dubourg, Départment d’Histoire, Université de Liège
Adelheid Russenberger, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London
Moderator/Chair
Wendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology & Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia
Paper 1105-a
Disabled Old Women against Romance: The Depictions of ‘La Vieille’, Frontier of Love in Le roman de la Rose (Language: English) Ninon Dubourg, Départment d’Histoire, Université de Liège Index Terms: Gender Studies; Mentalities; Social History
Paper 1105-b
Eastern Infirmity and Unholy Suffering: Genealogy and Faith as Disability / The Borders of Ability and Disability (Language: English) Jeffrey McCambridge, Department of English, College of Arts & Sciences, Ohio University Index Terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies; Medicine; Mentalities
Paper 1105-c
It’s All Fun and Games: Laughing at Newly Impaired and Newly Normative Bodies in Medieval France (Language: English) Heather Curtis, School of History, University of St Andrews Index Terms: Language and Literature – French or Occitan; Mentalities
Abstract
These three papers examine the different ways in which imaginary accounts of Disability and impairment provided a means of expressing contemporary concerns, and how this literary use of Disability creates an insight into medieval cultural norms and thought. The papers’ literary sources range from French comedy and romance to Christian descriptions of Islam, and provide an opportunity to explore how and when Disability intersected with other social categories of gender, race, and religion.
Session
1142
Title
#DisMed 5: Disability and Accessibility in Higher Education – A Round Table Discussion
Date/Time
Wednesday 6 July 2022: 11.15-12.45
Sponsor
Medievalists with Disabilities
Organiser
Alexandra R. A. Lee, Department of Liberal Studies, New York University, London
Moderator/Chair
Jack Ford, Department of History, University College London
Abstract
Founded in 2017, Medievalists with Disabilities marks its fifth year at the IMC with another round table discussion. This round table discussion offers a chance for disabled medievalists and their allies to share and offer solutions for issues, as well as sharing best practice. We will be discussing accessibility in academia, with topics ranging from allyship and physical access to autism and memory, and the importance of community.
Participants include Hope Doherty (Durham University), Alexandra Lee (University College London), and Amy Louise Morgan (University of Surrey).
Session
1205
Title
Cripping Normative Time: Being and Becoming Disabled in Medieval Europe
Date/Time
Wednesday 6 July 2022: 14.15-15.45
Organiser
Ninon Dubourg, Départment d’Histoire, Université de Liège
Adelheid Russenberger, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London
Moderator/Chair
Adelheid Russenberger, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London
Paper 1205-a
Constructing Melancholic Time in Thomas Hoccleve’s Series (Language: English) Emily A. Price, Department of English, City University of New York Index Terms: Language and Literature – Middle English; Medicine; Mentalities
Paper 1205-b
Boundaries between Age, Health, Ability, and Work: Aging in Medieval England (Language: English) Wendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology & Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia Index Terms: Daily Life; Medicine
Paper 1205-c
Drawing the Borders of Crip Time in Women’s Monastic Life, c. 1200-1300 (Language: English) Amelia Kennedy, Institut für Geschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Index Terms: Gender Studies; Medicine; Religious Life
Abstract
Disability disrupts and challenges normative notions of time and personal development, just as the progress of time leads to impairment. These papers explore how time itself and social expectations of an individual’s life-time in medieval Europe could disable individuals; and consider how a Disabled individual’s own experience of time could challenge the artificial boundaries of normative time.
Magic is hard to define, control, and censure. The use and study of magic overlaps and intersects with various disciplines, practices, and geographical locations. This panel has papers that explore the places where these cross-currents occur in inquisitorial, medicinal, legal, and literary miracles.
Sponsored By: Medieval Association for Rural Studies (MARS)
Papers
Tracing the Early Stages of the Second Plague Pandemic Maria A. Spyrou1, Lyazzat Musralina2, Guido A. Gnecchi Ruscone3, Arthur Kocher4, Pier-Giorgio Borbone5, Valeri I. Khartanovich6, Alexandra Buzhilova7, Leyla Djansugurova2, Kirsten I. Bos4, Denise Kühnert4, Wolfgang Haak4, Philip Slavin8 and Johannes Krause4, (1)Eberhard Karls Univ. Tübingen, (2)Al-Farabi Kazakh National Univ., (3)Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, (4)Max-Planck-Institut für Menschheitsgeschichte, (5)Univ. di Pisa, (6)Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, (7)Moscow State Univ., (8)Univ. of Stirling