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Sessions on Disability in the Middle Ages at ICMS Kalamazoo10/13 may 2018&#160;Thursday 10 am33 - BERNHARD 204Medicine and Magic I: Healing BodiesSponsor: Societas MagicaOrganizer: Marla Segol, Univ. at BuffaloPresider: David Porreca, Univ. of Waterloo1. Eating Words: Medical Charms as Healing Relics in Medieval EnglandKatherine Hindley, Nanyang Technological Univ.2. Magical Plants in the Healing ArtsHelga Ruppe, Western Univ.3. Occult Diagnosis: Physiognomy and the Medical AcademyKira L. Robison, Univ. of Tennessee–Chattanooga&#160;Thursday 1:30 pm80 - BERNHARD 204Medicine and Magic II: Healing SoulsSponsor: Societas MagicaOrganizer: Marla Segol, Univ. at BuffaloPresider: Phillip A. Bernhardt-House, Skagit Valley College–Whidbey Island1. Healing-Place for the Soul: Magic and Medicine in the Ancient Egyptian LibraryMark Roblee, Univ. of Massachusetts–Amherst2. Embryologies: Medical and RitualMarla Segol3. A Thirteenth-Century Version of the Almandal : Newly Discovered and Described for the First TimeVajra Regan, Univ. of Toronto&#160;Thursday 3:30&#160;117 - SCHNEIDER 1255A Science of the Human: Medical Discourse as a Way of KnowingSponsor: Italians and Italianists at KalamazooOrganizer: Matteo Pace, Columbia Univ.Presider: Matteo Pace1. Human Nature in, instead of beyond, Nature: A Reading of the PhilosophicalImplications of the Commedia ’s EmbryologyHumberto Ballesteros, Columbia Univ.2. Dante and Medieval Medicine: Charting Connections between the Commedia and His Other WorksPaola Ureni, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center, CUNY3. Petrarca and Botany: A Discourse on HealingTheresa Holler, Univ. Bern-------------------Friday, May 11 - 8:30 a.m.East Ballroom, Bernhard Center“Salvation is Medicine” - The Medieval Production and Gendered Erasures ofTherapeutic KnowledgeBy Sara Ritchey (Univ. of Tennessee–Knoxville)Sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America&#160;Friday 10 am211 - BERNHARD BROWN &#38; GOLD ROOMMedical Texts in Manuscript CultureSponsor: Medieval Academy of AmericaOrganizer: Monica H. Green, Arizona State Univ.; Sara Ritchey, Univ. ofTennesee–KnoxvillePresider: Monica H. Green1. How to Read Bodies: Medicine, Mary, and Miracles in an Anglo-Norman ManuscriptWinston Black, Assumption College2. Palliative Care for Life with Bodleian Library, Canonici Misc. 74Amy V. Ogden, Univ. of Virginia3. Healing through Words: Amulets, Formulae, and Spells in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts on Women’s Health CareCarmen Caballero Navas, Univ. de Granada&#160;212 - SANGREN 1320Vulnerability in the Middle AgesOrganizer: Hollis Shaul, Princeton Univ.Presider: Elise Wang, Duke Univ.1. The Wounded Knight-Healer: Corporeal Communities in the Old French Lancelot GrailMae Lyons-Penner, Stanford Univ.2. Bodies before the Law: Ordeal and Legal Vulnerability in Medieval IberiaRachel Q. Welsh, New York Univ.3. Peasant Perspectives on Protection and VulnerabilityAbigail Sargent, Princeton Univ.4. Voices of the Vulnerable: Persuasion and Power in Robert Henryson’s Moral FablesEmily Mahan, Univ. of Notre Dame&#160;Friday - 1:30 PM241 - SCHNEIDER 1220Inclusion and Exclusion in the Middle Ages ISponsor: 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 EasternDavid A. Heayn, Graduate Center, CUNY2. Christians under Islamic Rule: The Benefits of Collaboration and InclusionChris Prejean, Univ. of California–Los Angeles3. Inclusivity and Exclusivity in the Transmission of Poetic Knowledge in EarlyMedieval JapanMalgorzata Citko, Univ. of Hawaii–Manoa4. At the Crossroads of Kingship and Disability: The Case of Baldwin IV of JerusalemSamantha Summers, Queen’s Univ. Kingston&#160;267 - BERNHARD 212Medicine in Cities: Public Health and Medical ProfessionsSponsor: Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle AgesOrganizer: William H. York, Portland State Univ.Presider: William H. York1. Minds in the Gutter: Plague, Sin, and Blame in Late Medieval ValenciaAbigail Agresta, Queen’s Univ. Kingston2. Leprosy and Society in Medieval Bologna, 1100–1350Courtney A. Krolikoski, McGill Univ.3. “Per Modum Radicis”: Cultural Webs between Physicians and Poets in Duecento BolognaMatteo Pace, Columbia Univ.4. Pharmacy and Health Care in Late Byzantine ConstantinoplePetros Bouras-Vallianatos, King’s College London&#160;274 - SANGREN 1740Tenth Anniversary Roundtable: Medieval Disability Studies, Then and Now (A Roundtable)Sponsor: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle AgesOrganizer: Joshua Eyler, Rice Univ.Presider: Cameron Hunt McNabb, Southeastern Univ.1. SurvivalChristopher Baswell, Barnard College2. 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 TodayLeah Pope Parker, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison4. 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 ModernityJessica Chace, New York Univ.6. The Terms We UseJoshua Eyler7. Medieval Disability Studies: Looking Forward, Looking BackTory V. Pearman, Miami Univ. Hamilton&#160;Friday 3:30 pm&#160;330 - SANGREN 1740Invisible DisabilitiesSponsor: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle AgesOrganizer: Joshua Eyler, Rice Univ.Presider: Joshua Eyler1. Disabling Pride in the Pricke of ConscienceMichael Calabrese, California State Univ.–Los Angeles2. Invisible and Intermittent: Markedness, Loss of Mind, and Communities in Later Medieval Miracle StoriesLeigh Ann Craig, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.3. Deafness: Invisibility as Feignability, Silence as AffirmationJulie Singer, Washington Univ. in St. Louis&#160;324 - BERNHARD 212Military Medicine: Wounds and Disease in WarfareSponsor: Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle AgesOrganizer: William H. York, Portland State Univ.Presider: Linda M. Keyser, Medica1. Early Use of Medical Triage in the Saga of Saint OlafTheodore Cunningham, School of Medicine, Western Michigan Univ.2. Controversial Wound Treatment by Three Medieval Surgeons: Hugh of Lucca,Theodoric of Cervia, and Henry of MondevilleLeigh Whaley, Acadia Univ.3. Plague and the Great Company of 1361Nicole Archambeau, Colorado State Univ.&#160;Saturday 1:30&#160;399 - VALLEY 2 GARNEAU LOUNGECorruption of Manly Men in Late Medieval EnglandSponsor: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)Organizer: Matthew O’Donnell, Indiana Univ.–BloomingtonPresider: Matthew O’Donnell1. “He shall nat be hole longe afftir”: Disabling Gawain in Le Morte DarthurKristin Bovaird-Abbo, Univ. of Northern Colorado2. “Swiche Werk”: Performing Masculinity in Sir OrfeoWalter Wadiak, Lafayette College3. What Do Men Really Want? Desire in Sir Gawain and the Green KnightMickey Sweeney, Dominican Univ.