CFP Kalamazoo 2011: The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing
CFP KALAMAZOO 2011: THE SACRED AND THE SECULAR IN MEDIEVAL HEALING
*Call for Papers: The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing:
Sessions I-VI*
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
May 12-15, 2011
An exciting suite of six sessions under the umbrella theme *The
Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing *will be presented* *at
the 2011 Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo. The four societies
sponsoring these sessions -- Medica: The Society for the Study of
Healing in the Middle Ages, AVISTA: The Association Villard de
Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology,
Science, and Art, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML), and
Societas Magica -- invite submissions that focus on sites, images,
objects, and texts to explore the multivalent practices and meanings
of healing in all its forms. A wide range of approaches is
encouraged.
1. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing I: Sites and
Images
2. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing II: Objects and
Instruments *(co-sponsors AVISTA and Medica)*
Sessions I and II will focus on the art, architecture, and
technologies of healing in the Middle Ages.
Contact: Barbara Bowers (AVISTA, bowers.41@buckeyemail.osu.edu)
3. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing III: Texts
4. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing IV: Texts
*(co-sponsors Medica and AVISTA)** *
Sessions III and IV will explore the different textual traditions
in which medieval authors considered matters of health and healing.
For example, papers might examine texts produced by and for
scholastic physicians or laymen, questions about Latin and vernacular
medical textual traditions, specific issues addressed in medical
texts, such as theology, animal husbandry, etc., or the ways other
literary genres draw upon or treat medical subjects.
Contact: Linda Migl Keyser (Medica, keyserl@georgetown.edu)
5. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing V: Texts
*(co-sponsors HMML and Medica)*
Session V will focus on texts as a partial purveyor of healing
knowledge to go along with architectural setting, art image, and
artifact. Papers will discuss specific manuscripts, collections of
healing prayers, recipes, and explore the healing properties of
manuscripts as objects.
Contact: Theresa Vann (HMML, tvann@csbsju.edu)
6. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing VI: Texts:
Re-Siting *(co-sponsors Societas Magica and Medica) *
Session VI expands textual traditions to include additional sites,
such as the body as text.
Contact: Marla Segol (Societas Magica, msegol@skidmore.edu)
Please send proposals for papers (abstracts of no more than 300
words) and a completed Participant Information Formby e-mail to the
contact person for that session by *15 September 2010*.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please
contact either Linda Keyser (keyserl@georgetown.edu) or Barbara
Bowers (bowers.41@buckeyemail.osu.edu).
*Call for Papers: The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing:
Sessions I-VI*
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
May 12-15, 2011
An exciting suite of six sessions under the umbrella theme *The
Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing *will be presented* *at
the 2011 Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo. The four societies
sponsoring these sessions -- Medica: The Society for the Study of
Healing in the Middle Ages, AVISTA: The Association Villard de
Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology,
Science, and Art, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML), and
Societas Magica -- invite submissions that focus on sites, images,
objects, and texts to explore the multivalent practices and meanings
of healing in all its forms. A wide range of approaches is
encouraged.
1. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing I: Sites and
Images
2. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing II: Objects and
Instruments *(co-sponsors AVISTA and Medica)*
Sessions I and II will focus on the art, architecture, and
technologies of healing in the Middle Ages.
Contact: Barbara Bowers (AVISTA, bowers.41@buckeyemail.osu.edu)
3. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing III: Texts
4. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing IV: Texts
*(co-sponsors Medica and AVISTA)** *
Sessions III and IV will explore the different textual traditions
in which medieval authors considered matters of health and healing.
For example, papers might examine texts produced by and for
scholastic physicians or laymen, questions about Latin and vernacular
medical textual traditions, specific issues addressed in medical
texts, such as theology, animal husbandry, etc., or the ways other
literary genres draw upon or treat medical subjects.
Contact: Linda Migl Keyser (Medica, keyserl@georgetown.edu)
5. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing V: Texts
*(co-sponsors HMML and Medica)*
Session V will focus on texts as a partial purveyor of healing
knowledge to go along with architectural setting, art image, and
artifact. Papers will discuss specific manuscripts, collections of
healing prayers, recipes, and explore the healing properties of
manuscripts as objects.
Contact: Theresa Vann (HMML, tvann@csbsju.edu)
6. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing VI: Texts:
Re-Siting *(co-sponsors Societas Magica and Medica) *
Session VI expands textual traditions to include additional sites,
such as the body as text.
Contact: Marla Segol (Societas Magica, msegol@skidmore.edu)
Please send proposals for papers (abstracts of no more than 300
words) and a completed Participant Information Formby e-mail to the
contact person for that session by *15 September 2010*.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please
contact either Linda Keyser (keyserl@georgetown.edu) or Barbara
Bowers (bowers.41@buckeyemail.osu.edu).