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Must see ! sessions on Disability History –International Medieval Congress -Leeds - 2018 2-5 July 2018Session150TitleScientific, Empirical, Biblical, and Hagiographical Knowledge in the Middle Ages, I: Astronomy, Computus, and MedicineDate/TimeMonday 2 July 2018: 11.15-12.45SponsorSchool of Arts, English &#38; Languages, Queen's University BelfastOrganiserSarah Baccianti, School of Arts, English &#38; Languages, Queen's University BelfastModerator/ChairCiaran Arthur, School of Arts, English &#38; Languages, Queen's University BelfastPaper 150-aAnglo-Saxons' Visions of Modern Science(Language: English)Marilina Cesario, School of Arts, English &#38; Languages, Queen's University BelfastPedro Lacerda, School of Mathematics &#38; Physics, Queen's University BelfastIndex Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Language and Literature - Old English; SciencePaper 150-bWhy Write Computus in English?: Vernacularity and Computistical Inquiry(Language: English)Rebecca Stephenson, School of English, Drama &#38; Film, University College DublinIndex Terms: Language and Literature - Old English; Literacy and Orality; SciencePaper 150-cPus, Boils, and Amputations: Surgery in Medieval Scandinavia(Language: English)Sarah Baccianti, School of Arts, English &#38; Languages, Queen's University BelfastIndex Terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian; MedicineAbstractThis 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.Session339TitleMemory in the Angevin WorldDate/TimeMonday 2 July 2018: 16.30-18.00SponsorAngevin World NetworkOrganiserMichael Staunton, School of History, University College DublinModerator/ChairStephen Church, Department of History, King's College LondonPaper 339-aRemembering the Conquest of Ireland in the Angevin World(Language: English)Colin Veach, School of Histories, Languages &#38; Cultures, University of HullIndex Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Mentalities; Military HistoryPaper 339-bRemembering 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 DublinIndex Terms: Hagiography; Historiography - Medieval; Medicine; MentalitiesPaper 339-cRemembering the Loss of Normandy(Language: English)Michael Staunton, School of History, University College DublinIndex Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Mentalities; Military HistoryAbstractThis 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'.&#160;Session399Title#disIMC: Current Challenges to Accessibility and Ways Forward - A Round Table DiscussionDate/TimeMonday 2 July 2018: 16.30-18.00SponsorMedievalists with Disabilities NetworkOrganiserAlexandra R. A. Lee, Department of Italian, University College LondonModerator/ChairAlexandra R. A. Lee, Department of Italian, University College LondonAbstractAt 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).&#160;Session604TitleNew Voices in Anglo-Saxon Studies, IDate/TimeTuesday 3 July 2018: 11.15-12.45SponsorInternational Society of Anglo-SaxonistsOrganiserMegan Cavell, Department of English Literature, University of BirminghamModerator/ChairDamian Fleming, Department of English &#38; Linguistics, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort WaynePaper 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-MadisonIndex Terms: Language and Literature - Old English; Philosophy; Social HistoryPaper 604-bWomen, Adornment, and Social Change: Necklaces in 7th-Century Anglo-Saxon England(Language: English)Katie Haworth, Department of Archaeology, Durham UniversityIndex Terms: Archaeology - Artefacts; Women's StudiesPaper 604-cQuid est vox?: Mystery and Mysticism(Language: English)Matthew Coker, St Hilda's College, University of OxfordIndex Terms: Language and Literature - Celtic; Language and Literature - Latin; Language and Literature - Old English; Learning (The Classical Inheritance)AbstractThe 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.&#160;Session1047TitleReputation, Emotion, and Remembering Death and IllnessDate/TimeWednesday 4 July 2018: 09.00-10.30SponsorPrato Consortium for Medieval &#38; Renaissance Studies, Monash University, VictoriaOrganiserPeter Francis Howard, Centre for Medieval &#38; Renaissance Studies, Monash University, VictoriaModerator/ChairJohn Henderson, Department of History, Classics &#38; Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London / School of Philosophical , Historical &#38; International Studies , Monash UniversityPaper 1047-aRecording a Place of Emotions and Violence: Mapping the Coronial Deaths of Medieval Oxfordshire(Language: English)Annie Blachly, Centre for Medieval &#38; Renaissance Studies, Monash University, VictoriaIndex Terms: Archives and Sources; Computing in Medieval Studies; Social HistoryPaper 1047-bThe 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 &#38; Service Excellence, University of BedfordshireIndex Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Medicine; MentalitiesPaper 1047-cMedical Memory of Sense and Emotion by Baverio de'Bonetti (d. 1480): A Physician of Bologna(Language: English)Gordon Whyte, School of Philosophical, Historical &#38; International Studies, Monash University, VictoriaIndex Terms: Medicine; Social HistoryAbstractSerious 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.&#160;Session1108TitleSanctifying the Crip, Cripping the Sacred: Disability, Holiness, and Embodied KnowledgeDate/TimeWednesday 4 July 2018: 11.15-12.45SponsorHagiography SocietyOrganiserAlicia Spencer-Hall, School of Languages, Linguistics &#38; Film, Queen Mary, University of LondonModerator/ChairAlicia Spencer-Hall, School of Languages, Linguistics &#38; Film, Queen Mary, University of LondonPaper 1108-aHildegard 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 BristolIndex Terms: Gender Studies; Hagiography; Religious Life; TheologyPaper 1108-bTranslations of (Dis)Ability, Disease, and Digestion in The Book of Margery Kempe(Language: English)Katherine Gubbels, English Department, Metropolitan Community College, NebraskaIndex Terms: Gender Studies; Hagiography; Medicine; TheologyPaper 1108-cDisability and Power in the Early Lives of St Francis of Assisi(Language: English)Donna Trembinski, Department of History, St Francis Xavier University, Nova ScotiaIndex Terms: Gender Studies; Hagiography; Religious Life; TheologyPaper 1108-dBodily Arithmetic: Physical and Sacred Identity in Tristan de Nanteuil(Language: English)Blake Gutt, Department of French, University of CambridgeIndex Terms: Gender Studies; Hagiography; Religious Life; TheologyAbstractA 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 !