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Colloquium - Must see panels at IMCL - 3-6 July 2017 - on 'Otherness'Please, feel free to contact us if you are giving a speech on something close to disability history that we miss.Session1018TitleExceptionally Healthy?: Exploring Disease, Disfigurement, and Disability as the Norm in Medieval CultureDate/TimeWednesday 5 July 2017: 09.00-10.30SponsorCentre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University / Wellcome 'Effaced' Project, Swansea UniversityOrganiserPatricia E. Skinner, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea UniversityModerator/ChairElma Brenner, Wellcome Library, LondonPaper 1018-aEpilepsy and Otherness: The Prophet and His Detractors(Language: English)Hillary Burgardt, Department of Classics, Ancient History &#38; Egyptology, Swansea UniversityIndex Terms: Medicine; Rhetoric; Sermons and Preaching; Social HistoryPaper 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 WinchesterIndex Terms: Medicine; Religious Life; Social HistoryPaper 1018-cLooking Strange: A Positive Asset?(Language: English)Patricia E. Skinner, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea UniversityIndex Terms: Medicine; Religious Life; Social HistoryAbstractEngaging 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.Session1110Title'For I am a woman, ignorant, weak, and frail': Feminising Death and Disease in the Later Middle AgesDate/TimeWednesday 5 July 2017: 11.15-12.45OrganiserVictoria Baker, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of LeedsRachael Gillibrand, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of LeedsModerator/ChairRachael Gillibrand, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of LeedsPaper 1110-aDeath and the Maiden: Exploring the Feminisation of Death(Language: English)Victoria Baker, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of LeedsIndex Terms: Daily Life; Gender StudiesAbstractWithin 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?Session1118TitleSocial Exclusion: Leprosy, Madness, and Wardrobe MalfunctionsDate/TimeWednesday 5 July 2017: 11.15-12.45OrganiserIMC Programming CommitteeModerator/ChairPatricia E. Skinner, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea UniversityPaper 1118-aThe Transitory Convention of Madness in Arthurian Literature(Language: English)Erwann Hollevoet, Faculteit Letteren, KU Leuven / Group for Early Modern Studies, Universiteit GentIndex Terms: Language and Literature - Middle English; Medicine; Philosophy; Social HistoryPaper 1118-bClothing as a Means of Exclusion in Wolfram's Parzival(Language: English)Alissa Theiss, Institut für Deutsche Philologie des Mittelalters, Philipps-Universität MarburgIndex Terms: Daily Life; Gender Studies; Language and Literature - German; MentalitiesPaper 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, MilanoIndex Terms: Language and Literature - Middle English; Religious LifeAbstractPaper -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:In Wolfram of Eschenbach's Parzival the young and naive Parzival sets forth for fame and fortune wearing a fool's dress made by his mother. His clothing mirrors his manners. Due to Parzival's foolish behaviour Lady Jeschute is being punished and humiliated without cause by her husband. She is no longer allowed to change her clothes. Parzival's dress and Jeschute's torn clothing are tantamount to a divestiture. The actions of Parzival, dressed up like a villain, lead to Jeschute becoming an outlaw herself. Lacking appropriate clothing she cannot take part in courtly society any longer. When eventually Parzival is able to prove her innocence, Jeschute's re-entry into society is marked by being cloaked with her husband's surcoat.Paper -c:'Mass illnesses - from syphilis to cholera, from the Black Death to leprosy - have been linked to otherness both historically and cross-culturally' (Yardley, 2013). In R. Henryson's poem The Testament of Cresseid (mid-15th century) the protagonist's punishment for her blasphemy is leprosy. This makes her a symbol for sexually transmitted diseases (in accordance with medieval belief) and for the persecuted and marginalized victim. The dramatic physical changes Cressida undergoes, which mark the beginning of her conversion, also cause her estrangement from her previous life. In order to highlight the connotative value of the vocabulary chosen by the Henryson, this study focuses on the linguistic means chosen by the Scottish poet to describe Cressida's downfall and her becoming 'other' both physically and psychologically.&#160;Session1218TitleLeprosy and Power in the High Middle AgesDate/TimeWednesday 5 July 2017: 14.15-15.45SponsorGraduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of ReadingOrganiserKatie Phillips, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of ReadingModerator/ChairElma Brenner, Wellcome Library, LondonPaper 1218-aFrom Heinrich to Tristan: The Changing Function of Lepers in Middle High German Literature(Language: English)Madelon Köhler-Busch, Department of Humanities, University of Wisconsin-PlattevilleIndex Terms: Canon Law; Language and Literature - German; Pagan Religions; Social HistoryPaper 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 &#38; Religion, Cardiff UniversityIndex Terms: Medicine; Politics and Diplomacy; Religious LifePaper 1218-cLocus (in)honestus: Early Franciscan Attitudes towards the Leper Hospital(Language: English)Edward Sutcliffe, Department of Religion &#38; Theology, University of BristolIndex Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Hagiography; Religious LifeAbstractThe 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.Session1240TitleHealth and Medicine in the Early Medieval West, I: Situating Medical Texts and PracticesDate/TimeWednesday 5 July 2017: 14.15-15.45OrganiserClaire Burridge, Faculty of History, University of CambridgeZubin Mistry, School of History, Classics &#38; Archaeology, University of EdinburghModerator/ChairClaire Burridge, Faculty of History, University of CambridgePaper 1240-aThe Female Patient, the Physician, and Medical Responsibility in Late Antiquity(Language: English)Caroline Musgrove, Faculty of Classics, University of CambridgeIndex Terms: Daily Life; Gender Studies; Medicine; Women's StudiesPaper 1240-bTeraupetica (sic) : Manuscript Context and Christian Ideology in an Early Medieval Book of Medical Recipes(Language: English)Arsenio Ferraces-Rodríguez, Departamento de Letras, Universidade da CoruñaIndex Terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography; Medicine; TheologyPaper 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 UniversityIndex Terms: Daily Life; MedicineAbstractDespite 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.Session1319TitleBody, Soul, and Otherness, II: Religious and Medical Definitions of Mental and Physical DifferenceDate/TimeWednesday 5 July 2017: 16.30-18.00Sponsor'The Body in the City' Consortium &#38; Trivium, Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval &#38; Early Modern Studies, University of TampereOrganiserJenni Kuuliala, School of Social Sciences &#38; Humanities, University of TampereModerator/ChairGordon Whyte, School of Philosophical, Historical &#38; International Studies, Monash University, VictoriaPaper 1319-aDemonic Possession and the Physical, Spiritual, and Social 'Other'(Language: English)Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, School of Social Sciences &#38; Humanities, University of TampereIndex Terms: Hagiography; Lay Piety; Medicine; MentalitiesPaper 1319-bEffacing Demons: Ritual and Medical Care in Medieval Drama(Language: English)Andreea-Dana Marculescu, Department of Women's &#38; Gender Studies, University of OklahomaIndex Terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan; Lay Piety; Medicine; MentalitiesPaper 1319-cSainthood, Physical Deviance, and Otherness in the Late Middle Ages(Language: English)Jenni Kuuliala, School of Social Sciences &#38; Humanities, University of TampereIndex Terms: Hagiography; Lay Piety; Medicine; Social HistoryAbstractReligion 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.Session1340TitleHealth and Medicine in the Early Medieval West, II: Beyond Medical TextsDate/TimeWednesday 5 July 2017: 16.30-18.00OrganiserClaire Burridge, Faculty of History, University of CambridgeZubin Mistry, School of History, Classics &#38; Archaeology, University of EdinburghModerator/ChairRichard Sowerby, School of History, Classics &#38; Archaeology, University of EdinburghPaper 1340-aIncorporating Palaeopathological Evidence in the Study of Early Medieval Health and Medicine(Language: English)Claire Burridge, Faculty of History, University of CambridgeIndex Terms: Archaeology - General; Daily Life; Medicine; TechnologyPaper 1340-bSoul-Searching: Some Carolingian Answers(Language: English)Meg Leja, History Department, Binghamton UniversityIndex Terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance); Medicine; TheologyPaper 1340-c'There are three reasons why sterilitas affects women': Thinking about Fertility in Carolingian Monasteries(Language: English)Zubin Mistry, School of History, Classics &#38; Archaeology, University of EdinburghIndex Terms: Biblical Studies; Gender Studies; Learning (The Classical Inheritance); MedicineAbstractDespite 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.Session1508TitleCrusading, Identity, and Otherness, I: Women, Children, and the OldDate/TimeThursday 6 July 2017: 09.00-10.30SponsorNorthern Network for the Study of the CrusadesOrganiserKathryn Hurlock, Department of History, Politics &#38; Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan UniversitySini Kangas, School of Social Sciences &#38; Humanities, University of TampereJason T. Roche, Department of History, Politics &#38; Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityModerator/ChairJason T. Roche, Department of History, Politics &#38; Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityPaper 1508-aThe 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 &#38; Humanities, University of TampereIndex Terms: Crusades; Pagan ReligionsPaper 1508-bWomen 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 UniversitetIndex Terms: Crusades; Pagan ReligionsPaper 1508-cThe Damascene Frontier, 1099-1128: Frankish / Turkish Conflict and Peacemaking during the Post-First Crusade Era(Language: English)Nicholas E. Morton, School of Arts &#38; Humanities, Nottingham Trent UniversityIndex Terms: Crusades; Military HistoryAbstractIn 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.Session1625TitleApocalyptic Alterity: Otherness and the End TimesDate/TimeThursday 6 July 2017: 11.15-12.45OrganiserBrett E. Whalen, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillModerator/ChairFelicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität HagenRespondentJames Palmer, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St AndrewsPaper 1625-aEverybody Wants to Rule the World: Crusading Soldiers of Christ at the End of Time(Language: English)Matthew Gabriele, Department of Religion &#38; Culture, Virginia Technical InstituteIndex Terms: Crusades; Historiography - Medieval; TheologyPaper 1625-bChurch, Empire, and Apocalypse in the 13th Century(Language: English)Brett E. Whalen, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillIndex Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Historiography - Medieval; Political ThoughtPaper 1625-cHeavenly Hermaphrodites: Sexual Difference and the End of Time(Language: English)Leah DeVun, Department of History, Rutgers University, New JerseyIndex Terms: Gender Studies; Historiography - Medieval; SexualityAbstractMedieval 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.&#160;All Leeds infos here !