Inclusion – History of Disease, Disability & Medicine in Medieval Europe

13/09/2018

CFP – “Gender and ‘Aliens'” – Gender and Medieval Studies Conference 2019

“Gender and ‘Aliens'” –

Gender and Medieval Studies Conference 2019

In recent years discourse around ‘aliens’, as migrants living in modern nation-states, has been highly polarised, and the status of people who are technically termed legal or illegal aliens by the governments of those states has often been hotly contested. It is evident from studies of the past, however, that the movement of people is not a recent phenomenon: in the medieval west, one of the Latin terms applied to such people was alieni (‘foreigners’, or ‘strangers’), and it is clear from the surviving evidence that there were many people in the Middle Ages who could be, and indeed were, identified as aliens. This conference aims to stimulate debate about the ways in which gender intersected with and related to the idea of such aliens – and, more broadly, alienation – in the medieval world. Social, political and religious attitudes to aliens and the alienated were not constant over the centuries from c. 400 to c. 1500, and nor were they uniform across the whole world. Some foreigners, as aliens, might end up integrated into the societies they entered; others might find themselves marginalised, lonely or alone; or oppressed, as outlaws, outcasts, or slaves. Gender might exacerbate or mitigate this, depending on time, place and context. Authors or artists depicting parts of the world far from and alien to their own often filled them with people or beings not like them, demonstrating the imaginative power of alterity, while the reactions of those who encountered people from distant places and observed or participated in their customs could include recognition of similarity as well as difference. Foreigners were also not the only people who might find themselves alienated from, or within, certain societies or cultures: the medieval world included many marginalised groups. The issues of aliens and alienation may be differently construed in the modern world, but they are certainly not new. The relationship of gender to these topics is complex, variable and significant.

The conference aims to enable discussion of these issues as they relate to the whole medieval world from c. 400 to c. 1500. The organisers welcome proposals for papers on any topic related to gender and aliens or alienation, broadly construed, and encourage submissions relating to the world beyond Europe. Papers might consider issues such as:

* refugees, immigrants, emigrants

* inclusion and exclusion

* alterity and difference

* outlaws, the law, legality

* marginalised or disenfranchised groups

* non-normative bodies, illness, disability

* acculturation

* imagined geographies

* borders and frontiers

* ethnicity and identity

* slavery and slaves

In addition to sessions of papers, the conference will also include a poster session. Proposals for a 20-minute paper or for a poster can be submitted at https://tinyurl.com/gms2019submit by September 30th 2018. The conference organisers are also happy to consider proposals for other kinds of presentation: please contact the organisers at gmsconference2019@gmail.com to discuss these. Some travel bursaries will be available for students and unwaged delegates to attend this conference: please see http://medievalgender.co.uk/ for details.

26/07/2018

Call for Papers – ICMS Kalamazoo 2019 – “More Fuss about the Body: New Medievalists’ Perspectives”.

Call for Papers: International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, MI — May 9-12, 2019

“More Fuss about the Body: New Medievalists’ Perspectives”

Organizers: Stephanie Grace-Petinos and Leah Pope Parker

In her 1995 essay “Why All the Fuss about the Body?: A Medievalist’s Perspective,” Caroline Walker Bynum presented a nuanced picture of embodiment in the past in order “to suggest that we in the present would do well to focus on a wider range of topics in our study of body or bodies.”‘ The same year saw the release of Bynum’s magisterial exploration of the body, identity, and medieval Christian eschatology in The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336. Almost 25 years later, Bynum’s call for diversity with respect to histories of the body still invites increasingly nuanced approaches to medieval embodiment. This panel seeks to honor Bynum’s seminal essay, while using it as a springboard for future investigations concerning the body, both medieval and modern.

We seek papers that deal with personhood, identity, and the material body, updating histories of the body through arms of study that have grown in popularity New York, Plerpont Morgan Library, MS NI. 736 since the mid-1990s, including disability studies, trans studies, queer theory, postcolonial studies, posthumanism, ecocriticism, animal studies, and the global Middle Ages, along with new developments in feminist and critical race theory. Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:

• Bodily integrity and the limits of the body, healing damage to the body, or bodies and borders (i.e. the treatment of bodies in immigration/incarceration);

• Theologies of death and resurrection and rituals of burial and remembrance;

• Bodies centered and marginalized—including discussion of recent movements such as #metoo and Black Lives Matter;

• Gender expression and/through the body;

• Normativity (cisheteronormativity, compulsory ablebodiedness, etc);

• Flora and fauna, cyborgs and prosthesis;

• Present-day concepts of embodiment and their medieval predecessors as presented in popular culture (e.g. the television shows Supernatural or Game of Thrones);

• Comparative and cross-cultural concepts of the body; and/or

• The body in queer/crip time.

The organizers of this panel are committed to including perspectives representative of the diversity of the field, and to amplifying voices that are too often marginalized by systemic discrimination in academic employment, publishing, funding, and conference programming. In the spirit of Bynum’s invitation to consider “a wider range of topics in our study of body or bodies,” we welcome papers that offer critical reflections upon the field of medieval studies, and which represent diverse and innovative perspectives on medieval histories of the body and contemporary medievalisms. Given the limitations of a single conference panel, submissions will also receive early consideration for an edited volume on the same range of topics. Please submit abstracts of 200-300 words to More.Body.Fuss.Kzoo19@gmail.com by Friday, September 14, 2018, along with a completed Participant Information form. Please include your name, title, and affiliation on the abstract itself. All abstracts not accepted for the session will be forwarded to Congress administrators for consideration in general sessions, as per Congress regulations. The organizers are happy to answer any questions via the aforementioned email address.

‘Caroline Walker Bynum, “Why All the Fuss About the Body? A Medievalist’s Perspective,” Critical Inquiry 22 (1995): 1-33, p. 8.

More infos on Leah Pope’s website !

23/07/201823/07/2018

CFP – ‘Deformis Formositas ac Formosa Deformitas. The Ugliness of Beauty and the Beauty of Ugliness: Materializing Ugliness and Deformity in the Middle Ages’ – International Medieval Congress 2019 – July 1 – 4, 2019, University of Leeds.

‘Deformis Formositas ac Formosa Deformitas. The Ugliness of Beauty and the Beauty of Ugliness: Materializing Ugliness and Deformity in the Middle Ages’

Call for Papers for Session Proposal at the International Medieval Congress (IMC 2019)

July 1 – 4, 2019, University of Leeds.

The proposed session will discuss and debate on the various definitions and functions of the concept of “ugliness.” What is ugliness and how is it conceptualized? This session seeks original research which investigates debates on the concept of “ugliness” in various contexts:

Spiritual/physical/material ugliness;
Paradoxical nature of ugliness/irony/allegorical discourse;
Emotions and ugliness;
Functional aspects/Contrasts/Status and ugliness;
Didactic/moralistic functions;
Gendered aspects: ugliness belonging to other creatures;
Description/nature/character of ugliness;
Symbolism and patterns of transmission;
Comparative aspects of medieval beauty and ugliness;
Beauty within the context of ugliness in visual and textual sources;

Please submit a working title and a 250-word proposal for a 15-20 minute pape presentation by september 15th, 2018, the latest.

Contact informations :

Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky, Ca’Foscari university, Venice, Italy (andrea.znorovszky@unive.it)

Theodora C. Artimon, Trivent Publishing, Budapest, Hungary

21/06/201822/06/2018

Must see sessions on Disability History – International Medieval Congress – Leeds – 2018 2-5 July 2018

Must see ! sessions on Disability History –

International Medieval Congress –

Leeds – 2018 2-5 July 2018

Session	150
Title	Scientific, Empirical, Biblical, and Hagiographical Knowledge in the Middle Ages, I: Astronomy, Computus, and Medicine
Date/Time	Monday 2 July 2018: 11.15-12.45

Sponsor	School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen’s University Belfast

Organiser	Sarah Baccianti, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen’s University Belfast

Moderator/Chair	Ciaran Arthur, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen’s University Belfast

Paper 150-a	Anglo-Saxons’ Visions of Modern Science (Language: English) Marilina Cesario, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen’s University Belfast Pedro Lacerda, School of Mathematics & Physics, Queen’s University Belfast Index Terms: Historiography – Medieval; Language and Literature – Old English; Science
Paper 150-b	*Why Write Computus* in English?: Vernacularity and Computistical Inquiry** (Language: English) Rebecca Stephenson, School of English, Drama & Film, University College Dublin Index Terms: Language and Literature – Old English; Literacy and Orality; Science
Paper 150-c	Pus, Boils, and Amputations: Surgery in Medieval Scandinavia (Language: English) Sarah Baccianti, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen’s University Belfast Index Terms: Language and Literature – Scandinavian; Medicine

Abstract	This session will focus on attitudes to knowledge, which constitutes one of the most complex concepts in the Middle Ages, as suggested by the vast semantic range of the Latin terms commonly translated as ‘knowledge’, including scientia, cognitio, notitia, eruditio and sapientia. It will consider how scientia was transmitted and manipulated in the Middle Ages by looking at diverse sources ranging from astronomical, computistical, and mechanical texts (medicine, agriculture, and navigation), maps and the environment, and liturgical and hagiographical compositions from England, Scandinavia, and the Continent. Furthermore it will discuss the ways in which scientific knowledge and biblical and hagiographical learning were used to exercise power and the role that beliefs played in shaping and promoting scientific thinking.

Session	339
Title	Memory in the Angevin World
Date/Time	Monday 2 July 2018: 16.30-18.00

Sponsor	Angevin World Network

Organiser	Michael Staunton, School of History, University College Dublin

Moderator/Chair	Stephen Church, Department of History, King’s College London

Paper 339-a	Remembering the Conquest of Ireland in the Angevin World (Language: English) Colin Veach, School of Histories, Languages & Cultures, University of Hull Index Terms: Historiography – Medieval; Mentalities; Military History
Paper 339-b	Remembering Illness in the Angevin World: Variations of Familial Memory in the Miracle Accounts of Gilbert of Sempringham (Language: English) Krystal Carmichael, School of History, University College Dublin Index Terms: Hagiography; Historiography – Medieval; Medicine; Mentalities
Paper 339-c	Remembering the Loss of Normandy (Language: English) Michael Staunton, School of History, University College Dublin Index Terms: Historiography – Medieval; Mentalities; Military History

Abstract	This session addresses the ways in which events were remembered in the lands ruled by the Angevin kings of England (c. 1154 – c. 1216), a time of much innovation and variety in the recording and remembering of the past. Paper (a) looks at how the invasion of Ireland was remembered outside Ireland, in Latin and vernacular texts. Paper (b) discusses disputed memories of miracles in hagiographical texts, particularly those associated with Gilbert of Sempringham. Paper (c) examines the divergent ways in which King John’s loss of Normandy was remembered across the ‘Angevin empire’.

Session	399
Title	#disIMC: Current Challenges to Accessibility and Ways Forward – A Round Table Discussion
Date/Time	Monday 2 July 2018: 16.30-18.00

Sponsor	Medievalists with Disabilities Network

Organiser	Alexandra R. A. Lee, Department of Italian, University College London

Moderator/Chair	Alexandra R. A. Lee, Department of Italian, University College London

Abstract	At the IMC 2017, Medievalists with Disabilities hosted its first event. #disIMC was a ‘bring your own lunch’ affair, slotted into the timetable at the last minute. It was a great success and marked the beginning of the Medievalists with Disabilities (#dismed) network. This round table discussion will discuss accessibility in higher education and ways that we can address issues. We take the term disabilities in the broadest possible sense, incorporating invisible and visible conditions, chronic illness, and mental health, to name but a few. Panellists will address issues individuals have overcome in Higher Education, discuss what it is like to be in HE with a disability/chronic condition, and pinpoint issues that need further attention. Participants include Joanne Edge (University of Cambridge), Edward Mills (University of Exeter), Emma Osborne (University of Glasgow), Alicia Spencer-Hall (University College London), and Therron Welstead (University of Wales Trinity Saint David).

Session	604
Title	New Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies, I
Date/Time	Tuesday 3 July 2018: 11.15-12.45

Sponsor	International Society of Anglo-Saxonists

Organiser	Megan Cavell, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham

Moderator/Chair	Damian Fleming, Department of English & Linguistics, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Paper 604-a	‘Se bið mihtigre se ðe gæð þonne se þe crypð’: Metaphoric Disability in the Old English Boethius (Language: English) Leah Pope Parker, English Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison Index Terms: Language and Literature – Old English; Philosophy; Social History
Paper 604-b	Women, Adornment, and Social Change: Necklaces in 7th-Century Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Katie Haworth, Department of Archaeology, Durham University Index Terms: Archaeology – Artefacts; Women’s Studies
Paper 604-c	Quid est vox?: Mystery and Mysticism (Language: English) Matthew Coker, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford Index Terms: Language and Literature – Celtic; Language and Literature – Latin; Language and Literature – Old English; Learning (The Classical Inheritance)

Abstract	The New Voices sessions are intended for all scholars new to the field of Anglo-Saxon studies, including research students, newly-appointed lecturers, and anyone who has only recently begun to work in this area. They provide an interdisciplinary perspective and showcase new work in the field. All submissions are reviewed by the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS), who determine the ultimate selection of papers through a process of blind peer review. This particular session focuses on bodies.

Session	1047
Title	Reputation, Emotion, and Remembering Death and Illness
Date/Time	Wednesday 4 July 2018: 09.00-10.30

Sponsor	Prato Consortium for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria

Organiser	Peter Francis Howard, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria

Moderator/Chair	John Henderson, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London / School of Philosophical , Historical & International Studies , Monash University

Paper 1047-a	Recording a Place of Emotions and Violence: Mapping the Coronial Deaths of Medieval Oxfordshire (Language: English) Annie Blachly, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria Index Terms: Archives and Sources; Computing in Medieval Studies; Social History
Paper 1047-b	*The Insania* and Piety of Herimann of Nevers: Remembering a Mentally Ill Carolingian Bishop** (Language: English) Rachel Stone, Department of History, King’s College London / Learning Resources & Service Excellence, University of Bedfordshire Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Medicine; Mentalities
Paper 1047-c	Medical Memory of Sense and Emotion by Baverio de’Bonetti (d. 1480): A Physician of Bologna (Language: English) Gordon Whyte, School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, Monash University, Victoria Index Terms: Medicine; Social History

Abstract	Serious illness and sudden or violent death were familiar aspects of medieval life, but how did people choose to remember such experiences? Linked to the Body in the City Project, this session draws on a variety of different sources from across the Middle Ages recording illness and death, including medical treatises, coroners’ rolls, and forms of religious commemoration. The papers explore how the messy experiences of illness and death, and the complex emotions of those involved, could be interpreted and turned into more formal accounts of events, suitable for permanent record.

Session	1108
Title	Sanctifying the Crip, Cripping the Sacred: Disability, Holiness, and Embodied Knowledge
Date/Time	Wednesday 4 July 2018: 11.15-12.45

Sponsor	Hagiography Society

Organiser	Alicia Spencer-Hall, School of Languages, Linguistics & Film, Queen Mary, University of London

Moderator/Chair	Alicia Spencer-Hall, School of Languages, Linguistics & Film, Queen Mary, University of London

Paper 1108-a	Hildegard of Bingen’s Hagiography: The Community of Heaven and Earth and the Social Model of Disability (Language: English) Stephen Marc D’Evelyn, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol Index Terms: Gender Studies; Hagiography; Religious Life; Theology
Paper 1108-b	Translations of (Dis)Ability, Disease, and Digestion in The Book of Margery Kempe (Language: English) Katherine Gubbels, English Department, Metropolitan Community College, Nebraska Index Terms: Gender Studies; Hagiography; Medicine; Theology
Paper 1108-c	Disability and Power in the Early Lives of St Francis of Assisi (Language: English) Donna Trembinski, Department of History, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia Index Terms: Gender Studies; Hagiography; Religious Life; Theology
Paper 1108-d	Bodily Arithmetic: Physical and Sacred Identity in Tristan de Nanteuil (Language: English) Blake Gutt, Department of French, University of Cambridge Index Terms: Gender Studies; Hagiography; Religious Life; Theology

Abstract	A vast amount of our knowledge of the experience of impairment in the Middle Ages comes from religious works. An important manifestation of a presumptive saint’s holiness was their capacity to perform mystically curative healings to return their devotees to an able-bodied state. But medieval saints did not just tend to those with impairment. Some saints were themselves explicitly physically impaired, either permanently or temporarily. Saints’ ascetic self-mortification could also lead to impairment. In all instances, the saint’s body is divergent to the able-bodied norm of those around them, the non-saintly. It operates as a vector of the divine in miraculous healing of others; a receptacle of the divine in their ability to withstand extreme ascetic degradation. What is at stake if we consider the medieval saint’s body as impaired, disabled, emphatically non-able-bodied? Ultimately, this panel seeks to interrogate the ways in which the body – be that the saintly body, the disabled body, and/or the saintly and disabled body – acts as a site of embodied knowledge. More specifically, it aims to consider the body as a site of somatic memorialization: the corporeal matter of memory formation, memory retention, and temporal disturbance. How do impairments – writ on holy and profane bodies alike – bear witness to events, subject positions, even evanescent truths? And what does this form of productive bodily witnessing bring to bear on the concept of disability itself? This panel is comprised of four 15-minute papers.

More infos on the IMC Leeds website !

10/05/201810/05/2018

Sessions on Disability in the Middle Ages at ICMS Kalamazoo – 10/13 may 2018

Sessions on Disability in the Middle Ages at ICMS Kalamazoo

10/13 may 2018

Thursday 10 am

33 – BERNHARD 204

Medicine and Magic I: Healing Bodies

Sponsor: Societas Magica

Organizer: Marla Segol, Univ. at Buffalo

Presider: David Porreca, Univ. of Waterloo

1. Eating Words: Medical Charms as Healing Relics in Medieval England

Katherine Hindley, Nanyang Technological Univ.

2. Magical Plants in the Healing Arts

Helga Ruppe, Western Univ.

3. Occult Diagnosis: Physiognomy and the Medical Academy

Kira L. Robison, Univ. of Tennessee–Chattanooga

Thursday 1:30 pm

80 – BERNHARD 204

Medicine and Magic II: Healing Souls

Sponsor: Societas Magica

Organizer: Marla Segol, Univ. at Buffalo

Presider: Phillip A. Bernhardt-House, Skagit Valley College–Whidbey Island

1. Healing-Place for the Soul: Magic and Medicine in the Ancient Egyptian Library

Mark Roblee, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst

2. Embryologies: Medical and Ritual

Marla Segol

3. A Thirteenth-Century Version of the Almandal : Newly Discovered and Described for the First Time

Vajra Regan, Univ. of Toronto

Thursday 3:30

117 – SCHNEIDER 1255

A Science of the Human: Medical Discourse as a Way of Knowing

Sponsor: Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo

Organizer: Matteo Pace, Columbia Univ.

Presider: Matteo Pace

1. Human Nature in, instead of beyond, Nature: A Reading of the Philosophical

Implications of the Commedia ’s Embryology

Humberto Ballesteros, Columbia Univ.

2. Dante and Medieval Medicine: Charting Connections between the Commedia and His Other Works

Paola Ureni, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, CUNY

3. Petrarca and Botany: A Discourse on Healing

Theresa Holler, Univ. Bern

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Friday, May 11 – 8:30 a.m.

East Ballroom, Bernhard Center

“Salvation is Medicine” – The Medieval Production and Gendered Erasures of

Therapeutic Knowledge

By Sara Ritchey (Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville)

Sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America

Friday 10 am

211 – BERNHARD BROWN & GOLD ROOM

Medical Texts in Manuscript Culture

Sponsor: Medieval Academy of America

Organizer: Monica H. Green, Arizona State Univ.; Sara Ritchey, Univ. of

Tennesee–Knoxville

Presider: Monica H. Green

1. How to Read Bodies: Medicine, Mary, and Miracles in an Anglo-Norman Manuscript

Winston Black, Assumption College

2. Palliative Care for Life with Bodleian Library, Canonici Misc. 74

Amy V. Ogden, Univ. of Virginia

3. Healing through Words: Amulets, Formulae, and Spells in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts on Women’s Health Care

Carmen Caballero Navas, Univ. de Granada

212 – SANGREN 1320

Vulnerability in the Middle Ages

Organizer: Hollis Shaul, Princeton Univ.

Presider: Elise Wang, Duke Univ.

1. The Wounded Knight-Healer: Corporeal Communities in the Old French Lancelot Grail

Mae Lyons-Penner, Stanford Univ.

2. Bodies before the Law: Ordeal and Legal Vulnerability in Medieval Iberia

Rachel Q. Welsh, New York Univ.

3. Peasant Perspectives on Protection and Vulnerability

Abigail Sargent, Princeton Univ.

4. Voices of the Vulnerable: Persuasion and Power in Robert Henryson’s Moral Fables

Emily Mahan, Univ. of Notre Dame

Friday – 1:30 PM

241 – SCHNEIDER 1220

Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages I

Sponsor: Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton Univ.

Organizer: Helmut Reimitz, Princeton Univ.

Presider: William Chester Jordan, Princeton Univ.

1. Urban Violence: Riot Culture and Dynamics in Late Antique Eastern

David A. Heayn, Graduate Center, CUNY

2. Christians under Islamic Rule: The Benefits of Collaboration and Inclusion

Chris Prejean, Univ. of California–Los Angeles

3. Inclusivity and Exclusivity in the Transmission of Poetic Knowledge in Early

Medieval Japan

Malgorzata Citko, Univ. of Hawaii–Manoa

4. At the Crossroads of Kingship and Disability: The Case of Baldwin IV of Jerusalem

Samantha Summers, Queen’s Univ. Kingston

267 – BERNHARD 212

Medicine in Cities: Public Health and Medical Professions

Sponsor: Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages

Organizer: William H. York, Portland State Univ.

Presider: William H. York

1. Minds in the Gutter: Plague, Sin, and Blame in Late Medieval Valencia

Abigail Agresta, Queen’s Univ. Kingston

2. Leprosy and Society in Medieval Bologna, 1100–1350

Courtney A. Krolikoski, McGill Univ.

3. “Per Modum Radicis”: Cultural Webs between Physicians and Poets in Duecento Bologna

Matteo Pace, Columbia Univ.

4. Pharmacy and Health Care in Late Byzantine Constantinople

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, King’s College London

274 – SANGREN 1740

Tenth Anniversary Roundtable: Medieval Disability Studies, Then and Now (A Roundtable)

Sponsor: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages

Organizer: Joshua Eyler, Rice Univ.

Presider: Cameron Hunt McNabb, Southeastern Univ.

1. Survival

Christopher Baswell, Barnard College

2. Assessing the State of Medieval Disability Studies (by Editing a Scholarly Collection)

Kisha G. Tracy, Fitchburg State Univ.; John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State Univ.

3. Medieval Disability, or, What We Would Call Disability Today

Leah Pope Parker, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison

4. Where There Were Few, Now There Are Many: The Future of Medieval Disability Studies?

Wendy J. Turner, Augusta Univ.

5. From Saint to Supercrip: Tracing the Inspiration Narrative from the Middle Ages to Modernity

Jessica Chace, New York Univ.

6. The Terms We Use

Joshua Eyler

7. Medieval Disability Studies: Looking Forward, Looking Back

Tory V. Pearman, Miami Univ. Hamilton

Friday 3:30 pm

330 – SANGREN 1740

Invisible Disabilities

Sponsor: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages

Organizer: Joshua Eyler, Rice Univ.

Presider: Joshua Eyler

1. Disabling Pride in the Pricke of Conscience

Michael Calabrese, California State Univ.–Los Angeles

2. Invisible and Intermittent: Markedness, Loss of Mind, and Communities in Later Medieval Miracle Stories

Leigh Ann Craig, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.

3. Deafness: Invisibility as Feignability, Silence as Affirmation

Julie Singer, Washington Univ. in St. Louis

324 – BERNHARD 212

Military Medicine: Wounds and Disease in Warfare

Sponsor: Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages

Organizer: William H. York, Portland State Univ.

Presider: Linda M. Keyser, Medica

1. Early Use of Medical Triage in the Saga of Saint Olaf

Theodore Cunningham, School of Medicine, Western Michigan Univ.

2. Controversial Wound Treatment by Three Medieval Surgeons: Hugh of Lucca,

Theodoric of Cervia, and Henry of Mondeville

Leigh Whaley, Acadia Univ.

3. Plague and the Great Company of 1361

Nicole Archambeau, Colorado State Univ.

Saturday 1:30

399 – VALLEY 2 GARNEAU LOUNGE

Corruption of Manly Men in Late Medieval England

Sponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)

Organizer: Matthew O’Donnell, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington

Presider: Matthew O’Donnell

1. “He shall nat be hole longe afftir”: Disabling Gawain in Le Morte Darthur

Kristin Bovaird-Abbo, Univ. of Northern Colorado

2. “Swiche Werk”: Performing Masculinity in Sir Orfeo

Walter Wadiak, Lafayette College

3. What Do Men Really Want? Desire in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Mickey Sweeney, Dominican Univ.