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About the IMCThe International Medieval Congress (IMC) provides an interdisciplinary forum for sharing ideas relating to all aspects of the Middle Ages.Since its inception in 1994 the IMC has brought researchers from different countries, backgrounds, and disciplines together, providing opportunities for networking and professional development in an open and inclusive environment.It is organised and administered by the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds and takes place here on the main University campus.As the largest academic conference of its kind in Europe, the IMC attracts more than 2,700 medievalists from all over the world. By providing spaces for networking and socialising, it seeks to foster a scholarly community. It also hosts a wide variety of concerts, exhibitions, and excursions, which are open to delegates and the public alike.The next IMC will take place 6-9 July 2020.See the full programmeMonday 6 July 2020IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Monday 6 July 2020: 11.15-12.45Session106TitleBody and Culture in ByzantiumDate/TimeMonday 6 July 2020: 11.15-12.45 OrganiserIMC Programming Committee Moderator/ChairShaun Tougher, School of History, Archaeology &#38; Religion, Cardiff University Paper 106-aOn the Borders of Disability: The Forgotten Children of Byzantium(Language: English) Oana Maria Cojocaru, Department of Historical, Philosophical &#38; Religious Studies, University of Umea Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Daily Life; Hagiography; Social HistoryPaper 106-bἍγια ὁδεύοντα: Relic Movement and Power Projection in Medieval Byzantium(Language: English) Christopher Sprecher, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Regensburg Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Ecclesiastical History; Hagiography; Religious LifePaper 106-cBordering on Fraud: How One Garment Confounds a Foundation Tenet of the 'Middle Ages'(Language: English) Timothy Dawson, Independent Scholar, Tilbury Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Daily Life; Historiography - Modern Scholarship; Performance Arts - General AbstractPaper -a: Byzantine hagiographies and miracle collections provide a wealth of sources for studying disability, since they often include vivid descriptions of afflicted people. Yet children feature less often than adults, and the way they experienced their disability is always left aside. Previous scholarship has been content to focus on descriptions of adult disability, but it has thus become complicit in eliding the experience of a doubly marginal category in Byzantine society (disabled and children). My paper will discuss several such cases of disabled children, seeking to reconstruct the way gender, age, and social status may have influenced their lived experience. Paper -b: Much work has been done on the emergence of the cult of saints and the role of relics of various kinds: bones, clothing, and other possessions associated with specific saints and miraculous events. Though historical analyses of the appearance and prevalence of relics abound, and liturgical/theological reflections on the place of relics in Late Antique and medieval Christianity have been published, the ends to which church and state in medieval Byzantium and in neighbouring regions moved and deployed relics in pursuit of political power and urban prestige remains underdiscussed. This paper will briefly trace the history of relic movement via the emergence of feasts of relic translation and gifting, before examining instances from the 9th to 11th centuries in which the movement of relics via procession, gifting, or theft serves as a lens to shed light on relics' role in conferring civic honour and projecting ecclesiastical and political power. Paper -c: The concept of there being a 'Middle Ages' is largely founded on one sequence of events that is represented as the 5th-century 'Fall of the Roman Empire'. This idea, and its corrolary, that the entity ruled from Constantinople was somehow 'not really Roman', has come under increasingly vigourous challenge over the lest two decades in some circles, yet seems to retain a hold on Western Medievalists. The falseness of the dichotomy can be demonstrated in a literally material manner by one garment which was central to the ceremonial of the Roman Empire for more than one and a half millennia. Beginning in earlier Antiquity as the toga, it evolved and persisted in use right up to the Ottoman Conquest. The presentation wil involve dressing volunteers from the audience. Session107TitleAffected Bodies in the Age of Joan of ArcDate/TimeMonday 6 July 2020: 11.15-12.45 SponsorJean Gerson Society OrganiserMatthew Vanderpoel, Divinity School, University of Chicago Geneviève Young, Department of French, University of Cambridge Moderator/ChairBlake Gutt, Department of Romance Languages &#38; Literatures, University of Michigan Paper 107-aThe Genius of France: Joan of Arc and the Nation(Language: English) Geneviève Young, Department of French, University of Cambridge Index Terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan; PhilosophyPaper 107-bEpistemologies, Bodily and Verbal, in the Trial of Joan of Arc(Language: English) Matthew Vanderpoel, Divinity School, University of Chicago Index Terms: Gender Studies; Philosophy; TheologyPaper 107-cMarginal Faces in Late Medieval Manuscripts: Affect and the Unknowable(Language: English) Alice Hazard, Department of French, King's College London Index Terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan; Manuscripts and Palaeography AbstractHow were bodies - often taken as a material given - enacted, affirmed, and verified in the later Middle Ages? In this same vein, how were bodies interrogated, challenged, and disavowed? In this panel, we question the ways in which bodies, as affected sites, become objects of force, emotionalized entities, or adopted performances. We ask how Joan of Arc's (or others') embodiment is framed, questioned, or mobilized, whether in her inquisitorial trial or in later scholarship. In probing the tensions that arise between the apparent given-ness of the body and its many contestations we aim to prompt new investigations of late medieval theorizations and epistemologies of the body, gender, and discernment. Session121TitleMedical BordersDate/TimeMonday 6 July 2020: 11.15-12.45 OrganiserIMC Programming Committee Moderator/ChairIona McCleery, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds Paper 121-aOf Monsters and Medicine: The Borders of Disease and the Monstrous(Language: English) Sonya Pihura, Department of History &#38; Classical Studies, McGill University, Québec Index Terms: Folk Studies; Medicine; Mentalities; Sermons and PreachingPaper 121-bThe Female Body, or Is It?(Language: English) Baylee Staufenbiel, School of Historical, Philosophical &#38; Religious Studies, Arizona State University Index Terms: Medicine; Science; Sexuality; Women's StudiesPaper 121-cHow to Join the Borders of the Wounds: Principles of Suturing and Healing Wounds in the Medieval Period, according to Henri de Mondeville (Cambridge, Peterhouse 118)(Language: English) Corinne Lamour, Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM - UMR 7302), Université de Poitiers / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Index Terms: Language and Literature - Middle English; Medicine AbstractPaper -a: In the Middle Ages, the sick occupied a liminal space, between health and death, between Earth and the afterlife. Likewise, monsters, whether elves, demons, or dragons, were perceived as liminal beings, existing in transitory spaces: bridges, marshlands, and borderlands. This paper focuses on Anglo-Saxon and medieval England, and the connection between monsters and disease. Using the Anglo-Saxon medical corpus, imported Latin texts, religious writings, and folklore, this paper displays the intertwined borders of the liminal sick and their liminal monsters, and discusses the ways in which monstrosity and disease were conflated and how these ideas affected treatment. Paper -b: Mondino de Liuzzi, known as 'the Restorer of Anatomy', revived the practice of anatomical dissection lost for approximately 1700 years. Since antiquity, the female body was a site of conquest wrapped up in complex constructions of sexual scientific medical discourse and social practices based on ancient medical texts. Societal norms bound bodies; yet bodies remained susceptible to external and internal, physical and invisible forces. Dissection played a role in breaching the physical boundaries of the body. Though anatomical dissection should have shed light on ancient medical misconceptions and inaccuracies, medieval dissection reinforced the errors put forth by ancient authors.  Paper -c: The skin, the border between outside and inside of the body, reflects the integrity of the body, and when wounded its treatment remained a crucial challenge in the Middle Ages. While the early authors advocated the suppuration of wounds as a necessary factor for wound healing, Henri de Mondeville (1260-1320), surgery's master, was a forerunner by recommending an aseptic treatment of wounds without suppuration, and a first intention healing by suturing wounds when their borders could be joined. This first intention of healing a wound by joining the borders, when there is no tissue loss, remains the first option in modern care. Henri de Mondeville had a resolutely modern approach to surgery that transcends the boundaries of time. IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Monday 6 July 2020: 14.15-15.45Session221TitleMedical Knowledge Crossing Boundaries, I: Reappropriating Medical KnowledgeDate/TimeMonday 6 July 2020: 14.15-15.45 SponsorMedica (The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages) OrganiserAnna Peterson, Independent Scholar, Valladolid Moderator/ChairAnna Peterson, Independent Scholar, Valladolid Paper 221-aManuscript to Print to Manuscript: Remaking Medical Knowledge across Temporal, Linguistic, and Material Boundaries(Language: English) Lori Jones, Department of History, Carleton University, Ottawa Index Terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography; Medicine; Printing HistoryPaper 221-bFrom the Printing Press to the Quill: The Reuse of von Gersdorff's Feldtbuch der Wundarzney in Manuscript Medical Collections(Language: English) Chiara Benati, Dipartimento di Lingue e Culture Moderne, Università degli Studi di Genova Index Terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography; Medicine; Printing HistoryPaper 221-cStones, Saints, and Secrets: The Rebranding of Medieval Lapidary Knowledge for Early Modern Audiences(Language: English) Nichola Harris, Department of Social Science, History &#38; Education, Ulster County Community College, State University of New York Index Terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography; Medicine; Printing History AbstractThis year Medica (the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages) will be sponsoring two sessions and a round table related to the movement and transfer of medical knowledge between and across different types of boundaries: geographical, societal, professional, religious, linguistic, material, chronological, etc. These sessions seek to examine various issues related to itineraries of medical knowledge, intended and unintended audiences, and the early modern reuse of medical manuscripts.  Session248TitleIt's a Queer Time: Trespassing the Boundaries of Chrononormativity, II - Trans-FigurationsDate/TimeMonday 6 July 2020: 14.15-15.45 SponsorInstitutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen OrganiserDavid Carrillo-Rangel, Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen Moderator/ChairMichelle M. Sauer, Department of English, University of North Dakota Paper 248-aGrendel's Mother's Queer Spaces in Time: A Trans and Intersec-[x]-tional Reading(Language: English) Teresa Pilgrim, School of Literature &#38; Languages, University of Surrey Index Terms: Gender Studies; Language and Literature - Comparative; Language and Literature - Old EnglishPaper 248-bMystical Pregnancy and Bodily Hybridity in the Later Middle Ages(Language: English) Mads Vedel Heilskov, Centre de Recherches Historiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris Index Terms: Gender Studies; Historiography - MedievalPaper 248-cBeyond the Lines: Criseyde's Transtemporal Melancholia(Language: English) Eduardo Correia, Department of English, King's College London Index Terms: Gender Studies; Language and Literature - Comparative; Language and Literature - Middle English AbstractChrononormativity is a term coined by Elizabeth Freeman to define 'the use of time to organize individual human bodies towards maximum productivity (…) through particular orchestrations of time. (…) Schedules, calendars, time zones' (2010: 3). We see this at work in parcelling of history through periodization and localization in given spaces. These become boundaries and barriers to a more fluid understanding of the Middle Ages. If the Middle Ages is 'age of the medium' (Jørgensen, 2015:9), both in regards to materialities and historical witness, it might mean that the period is also a queer time, in it its fluidity as well as in the way historiography articulates present (mis)conceptions of the past. This second session explores trans-figuration and trans-temporalities as a way of making visible other ways of being and becoming. Session252TitlePlaying the Middle Ages, II: Authority, Authenticity, and AccuracyDate/TimeMonday 6 July 2020: 14.15-15.45 SponsorThe Public Medievalist / Centre for Medieval &#38; Renaissance Research, University of Winchester OrganiserRobert Houghton, Department of History, University of Winchester Moderator/ChairLiam McLeod-Eccles, Department of History, University of Birmingham Paper 252-aPotions and Poisson: Health and Healing in Medieval-Themed Role-Playing Video Games(Language: English) Raniel Carmona Ponteras, Independent Scholar, Philippines Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Medicine; Medievalism and Antiquarianism; SciencePaper 252-bHearing Problems: Sounding Medieval in Video Games(Language: English) Karen Cook, Hartt School, University of Hartford, Connecticut Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Medievalism and Antiquarianism; Technology AbstractClaims to historical authority, authenticity, and accuracy are central to the success of a diverse range of games set within the medieval period or which draw upon medieval elements. Grounding a medieval or fantasy game in a recognisably historical environment may promote player immersion and enjoyment. However, these appeals are often used to excuse the creation of exclusionary, misogynist, or racist spaces. Further, there is a strong argument to be made that accuracy can sometimes undermine play. These papers consider various approaches to historical authority, authenticity, and accuracy across different genres of game. IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Monday 6 July 2020: 16.30-18.00Session321TitleMedical Knowledge Crossing Boundaries, II: The Movement and Transmission of Medical KnowledgeDate/TimeMonday 6 July 2020: 16.30-18.00 SponsorMedica (The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages) OrganiserAnna Peterson, Independent Scholar, Valladolid Moderator/ChairLori Jones, Department of History, Carleton University, Ottawa Paper 321-aTraveling Roots: Medical Substances and Expertise across Boundaries(Language: English) Nükhet Varlik, Department of History, University of South Carolina Index Terms: Economics - Trade; MedicinePaper 321-bMedicine on the Move: England and Europe in the Late Middle Ages(Language: English) Peter M. Jones, King's College, University of Cambridge Index Terms: Education; Medicine; MonasticismPaper 321-cMedical Knowledge in Iceland: The Reception and Transmission of Medical Texts in the North(Language: English) Sarah Baccianti, School of Arts, English &#38; Languages, Queen's University Belfast Index Terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography; Medicine AbstractThis year Medica (the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages) will be sponsoring two sessions and a round table related to the movement and transfer of medical knowledge between and across different types of boundaries: geographical, societal, professional, religious, linguistic, material, chronological, etc. These sessions seek to examine various issues related to itineraries of medical knowledge, intended and unintended audiences, and the early modern reuse of medical manuscripts.  IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Monday 6 July 2020: 19.00-20.00Session421TitleMedical Knowledge Crossing Boundaries: A Round Table DiscussionDate/TimeMonday 6 July 2020: 19.00-20.00 SponsorMedica (The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages) OrganiserAnna Peterson, Independent Scholar, Valladolid Moderator/ChairAnna Peterson, Independent Scholar, Valladolid AbstractThis round table discussion will analyse and examine the transmission, reception, and reappropriation of medical knowledge not only throughout the medieval world, but also between the medieval and early modern period. Participants include Sarah Baccianti (Queen's University Belfast), Chiara Benati (Università degli Studi di Genova), Nichola Harris (State University of New York), Lori Jones (Carleton University, Ottawa), Peter Jones (University of Cambridge), and Nükhet Varlik (University of South Carolina). Tuesday 7 July 2020IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Tuesday 7 July 2020: 09.00-10.30Session510Title(Un)Bound Bodies: Consolidating and Fragmenting Borders, IDate/TimeTuesday 7 July 2020: 09.00-10.30 OrganiserLauren Rozenberg, Department of History of Art, University College London Moderator/ChairEmma Zürcher, Department of History, University College London Paper 510-aMeekness Embodied: The Boundaries between Meekness and the Self(Language: English) Merridee Bailey, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Index Terms: Daily Life; Lay Piety; Mentalities; Religious LifePaper 510-bDis/Ability and Bodies in 14th-Century Canonisation Inquests(Language: English) Adelheid Russenberger, School of History, Queen Mary University of London Index Terms: Daily Life; Lay Piety; Medicine; Social HistoryPaper 510-cThe Liquid Body Politic(Language: English) Nicole Hochner, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Index Terms: Economics - General; Medicine; Music; Political Thought AbstractThis session explores how the porosity and diversity of medieval bodies were codified to define normative identities, morality, or selfhood. The papers draw together visual culture, archival materials, and political ideologies to emphasis the role of embodiment in social and cultural experiences. More specifically, the papers look at the embodiment of meekness in visual culture, the place of disabled bodies in canonisation inquests, and the liquid body politic in the work of Nicole Oresme. Session546TitleMinority and Marginalised ExperiencesDate/TimeTuesday 7 July 2020: 09.00-10.30 SponsorCerae: An Australasian Journal of Medieval &#38; Early Modern Studies OrganiserChristina Cleary, Department of Irish &#38; Celtic Languages, Trinity College Dublin Moderator/ChairChristina Cleary, Department of Irish &#38; Celtic Languages, Trinity College Dublin Paper 546-aThe Voices of the People, Bologna, 1299: A Contribution to the Problem of the Medieval Public Sphere(Language: English) Teresa Barucci, Gonville &#38; Caius College, University of Cambridge Index Terms: Daily Life; Historiography - Medieval; Language and Literature - Latin; Political ThoughtPaper 546-bGems and Jews: Appropriating Jewishness in Cynewulf's Elene(Language: English) Thelma Trujillo, College of Arts &#38; Sciences, Illinois State University Index Terms: Daily Life; Historiography - Medieval; Language and Literature - Old English; MentalitiesPaper 546-cNo Country for Old Men: 'Elde' in the 'Merchant's Tale'(Language: English) Maria Zygogianni, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Index Terms: Daily Life; Historiography - Medieval; Language and Literature - Old English; Mentalities AbstractThis session, organised by Cerae: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, aims to contribute to the current movement in acknowledging systemic discrimination in Medieval Studies by drawing attention to the experiences of people who lived on the borders of society during the Middle Ages in Europe. Three speakers will investigate selections of texts from medieval English and Italian literature and discuss the depictions, experiences, agency, and voices of minority and marginalised groups. In doing so, the session will bring to the fore some of the most interesting and understudied aspects of medieval life in Europe. Session551TitleDis/Ability in the Medieval North, IDate/TimeTuesday 7 July 2020: 09.00-10.30 SponsorDisability before Disability, University of Iceland, Reykjavík / Icelandic Research Fund OrganiserChris Crocker, Disability Before Disability Project, University of Iceland, Reykjavík Yoav Tirosh, Faculty of Icelandic &#38; Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík Moderator/ChairNinon Dubourg, Laboratoire Identités Cultures et Territoires (ICT), Université Diderot Paris 7 Paper 551-aDisability before Disability in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas: Methodological Considerations(Language: English) Chris Crocker, Disability Before Disability Project, University of Iceland, Reykjavík Yoav Tirosh, Faculty of Icelandic &#38; Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík Index Terms: Daily Life; Language and Literature - Scandinavian; Mentalities; Social HistoryPaper 551-bDependency or Authority? Disability or Ability?: Care Givers and Receivers in Old English and Anglo-Latin Sources(Language: English) Marit Ronen, Independent Scholar, Upper Galilee Index Terms: Daily Life; Language and Literature - Old English; Social HistoryPaper 551-cHearing Loss in Medieval Iceland: The Palaeopathology of a Hidden Disability(Language: English) Cecilia Collins, Independent Scholar, Hamburg Index Terms: Anthropology; Archaeology - General; Medicine AbstractThese sessions explore disability in the medieval North as a multi-factorial phenomenon. They make use of the concepts of 'embodied difference' and/or 'marked or atypical bodies' as they do not imply pre-defined notions of disability. The body is seen as something that materialises and translates physical, psychic, and intellectual differences in ways that societies identify them as deviations from what is considered 'normal' and/or 'able-bodied' in specific cultural and/or social contexts. Within this framework, the papers deal with archaeological, literary, and historical evidence, and engage with methodological challenges involved in researching disability, and accordingly also ability, in the Middle Ages. IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Tuesday 7 July 2020: 11.15-12.45Session605TitleCrossing Urban Legal Boundaries in Northern Europe, II: The Town and BeyondDate/TimeTuesday 7 July 2020: 11.15-12.45 OrganiserEdda Frankot, Fakultetet for Samfunnsvitenskap, Nord Universitet, Bodø Miriam Tveit, Fakultetet for Samfunnsvitenskap, Nord Universitet, Bodø Moderator/ChairMiriam Tveit, Fakultetet for Samfunnsvitenskap, Nord Universitet, Bodø Paper 605-aPublic Health in Pre-Modern Norway?(Language: English) Erik Opsahl, Institutt for historiske studier, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Trondheim Index Terms: Economics - Urban; Law; Social HistoryPaper 605-bScottish Towns and Their Hinterlands: A Symbiotic Relationship(Language: English) David Ditchburn, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin Index Terms: Economics - Trade; LawPaper 605-cEnglish Towns and Their Suburbs: Questions of Boundaries(Language: English) Richard Holt, Institutt for arkeologi, historie, religionsvitenskap og teologi, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitet Index Terms: Economics - Urban; Law AbstractThe distinction between town and countryside was in some ways quite sharply drawn - for example with regard to law. But in other ways the distinction was much more blurred. This session aims to illuminate the complex physical, ideological, and metaphorical boundaries between a town and its surroundings. Opsahl asks what borders existed in Norway when it came to instituting preventative healthcare in town and countryside. Ditchburn examines especially the regulation of the economic relationship between Scottish towns and their hinterlands, which extended overseas too. Holt explores how the separate physical, tenurial, or sometimes legal identity of suburbs might have given rise to conflicts concerning jurisdiction between them and borough communities. Session610Title(Un)Bound Bodies: Consolidating and Fragmenting Borders, IIDate/TimeTuesday 7 July 2020: 11.15-12.45 OrganiserLauren Rozenberg, Department of History of Art, University College London Moderator/ChairJack Ford, Department of History, University College London Paper 610-aBoundless Possibilities: Seeing Eunuchs in Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Gr. 510(Language: English) Lora Webb, Department of Art &#38; Art History, Stanford University / Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma Index Terms: Art History - General; SexualityPaper 610-b'Heart hair mouth nail hand skin blood': Hearing the 13th-Century Body in George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's Written on Skin(Language: English) George Haggett, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford Index Terms: Music; Performance Arts - GeneralPaper 610-cAgrippina and Nero: When Parenthood Leads to Uterine Vivisection and Male Pregnancy(Language: English) Lauren Rozenberg, Department of History of Art, University College London Index Terms: Art History - General; Sexuality AbstractRanging from 9th-century representations of eunuchs to 21st-century operatic staging of a 13th-century razo and late medieval illuminations of uterine vivisection and male pregnancy, this panel engages with the representation and enactment of bodily violence. It questions how such representations of fragmented and mutilated bodies are perceived for themselves or for their ontological status as representations. They enact something other than themselves, which fundamentally transforms them and the way they are seen. Session651TitleDis/Ability in the Medieval North, IIDate/TimeTuesday 7 July 2020: 11.15-12.45 SponsorDisability before Disability, University of Iceland, Reykjavík / Icelandic Research Fund OrganiserChris Crocker, Disability Before Disability Project, University of Iceland, Reykjavík Yoav Tirosh, Faculty of Icelandic &#38; Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík Moderator/ChairChris Crocker, Disability Before Disability Project, University of Iceland, Reykjavík Paper 651-aEmotional Paralysis as a Specific Phenomenon of Old Norse Literature(Language: English) Marie Novotná, Fakulta humanitních studií, Univerzita Karlova, Praha Index Terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian; Medicine; MentalitiesPaper 651-bTravelled yet Troubled: When a Good King Goes Mad(Language: English) Judith Higman, Darwin College, University of Cambridge Index Terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian; Medicine; Mentalities; Social HistoryPaper 651-c'Svartir ok furðu ljótir': Unusual Bodies in Geirmundar þáttr heljarskinns and Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka(Language: English) Katherine Marie Olley, St Hilda's College, University Of Oxford Index Terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian; Mentalities; Social History; Women's Studies AbstractThese sessions explore disability in the medieval North as a multi-factorial phenomenon. They make use of the concepts of 'embodied difference' and/or 'marked or atypical bodies' as they do not imply pre-defined notions of disability. The body is seen as something that materialises and translates physical, psychic, and intellectual differences in ways that societies identify them as deviations from what is considered 'normal' and/or 'able-bodied' in specific cultural and/or social contexts. Within this framework, the papers deal with archaeological, literary and historical evidence, and engage with methodological challenges involved in researching disability, and accordingly also ability, in the Middle Ages. IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Tuesday 7 July 2020: 14.15-15.45Session710Title(Un)Bound Bodies: Consolidating and Fragmenting Borders, IIIDate/TimeTuesday 7 July 2020: 14.15-15.45 OrganiserLauren Rozenberg, Department of History of Art, University College London Moderator/ChairLauren Rozenberg, Department of History of Art, University College London Paper 710-aCastrating Ovid: Christine de Pisan and the Medieval Ovidian Body(Language: English) Rebecca Menmuir, Jesus College, University of Oxford Index Terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan; SexualityPaper 710-bMy Body, My Choice?: Consent and Commodification of the Female Holy Body in 13th-Century Hagiography(Language: English) Lydia Marie Walker, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies , University of Toronto Index Terms: Hagiography; Women's StudiesPaper 710-cEnclosure and the Body, or, Delation, Punishment, and the Scopophilic Eye in Cligès, the 'Berenger au lonc cul', and 'Castia gilos'(Language: English) Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Department of French Studies, Brown University Index Terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan; Women's Studies AbstractBodily mutilation - real or imagined - represents a visceral example of the unbinding of the body. Papers in this session approach mutilation through the lens of castration, bodily relics, and torture. An examination of Christine de Pizan's Le Livre de la Cité des Dames, Chrétien de Troyes's Cligès and the hagiographies of Marie d'Oignies and Hadewijch reveal that the body, and particularly the female body, served as a contested space. As a locus for empowerment or disempowerment, the enforcement or self-infliction of disfigurement, these texts show how medieval bodies, and damage the wrought upon them, both strengthened and abused bodily identity. Session741TitleMonsters on the Margins: Perspectives on the Monstrous in Medieval TextsDate/TimeTuesday 7 July 2020: 14.15-15.45 OrganiserIMC Programming Committee Moderator/ChairMarina Montesano, Dipartimento di Civiltà antiche e moderne, Università degli Studi di Messina Paper 741-aEnslaved Giants: Ascopard's Monstrosity and Mitigation in the Middle English Bevis of Hampton(Language: English) Charlotte Ross, Independent Scholar, Bristol Index Terms: Language and Literature - Middle English; MentalitiesPaper 741-bDancers from Abroad: Gothic Marginal Illustrations Featuring 'Others'(Language: English) Zofia Marianna Załęska, Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw Index Terms: Art History - General; Daily Life; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Performance Arts - DancePaper 741-cThe Persian Perspective: On The Book of Wonders Outside of the European Centre(Language: English) Lucia Simova, Independent Scholar, South Orange, New Jersey Index Terms: Art History - General; Islamic and Arabic Studies; Manuscripts and Palaeography AbstractPaper -a: Modern criticism of giants in early Middle English literature is largely concerned with the exclusion of these monstrous figures as antitheses to mankind. The topic of this paper addresses an understudied area of this field: the 'enslaved giant', where these bodies of extreme otherness are placed firmly within the reassuring familiarity of human society. This study explores the role of Ascopard as an enslaved giant in the Middle English text of Bevis of Hampton, with reference to the Anglo-Norman source text. This paper argues that the Middle English text blurs the boundary between human and animal by reducing Ascopard's monstrosity and mitigating his villainy, whilst still acting within the parameters of the plot. Paper -b: Dance, as an integral part of the life of a medieval man, was often depicted in the margins of gothic manuscripts. Alongside dancing villagers, churchmen, ladies and knights, we can spot people overgrew with fur with animal heads. Trying to understand illustrator's intentions I will consider whether those creatures are actually wildmen, cynocephali, or other legendary monsters believed to live outside western world, or simply masked, carnivalesque people. If the dancers come from faraway land, how do they know the steps? If they are locals, why are they disguised? In this paper I will try to answer aforementioned questions putting it in a broad context of medieval dance. Paper -c: The world that exists at the periphery of the medieval mind has always been marred with creatures unknown and things not yet understood. If the center moves beyond the European confines, the borders appear to be broadened. Muhammad ibn Al-Qazwini is one of a myriad of scholars that were combining the knowledge of medieval European explorers and bestiary authors and of the changing world around him. This paper aims to grapple with what the periphery looked like from a Persian perspective, with an introduction to Al-Qazwini's Book of Wonders. IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Tuesday 7 July 2020: 16.30-18.00Session810Title(Un)Bound Bodies: Consolidating and Fragmenting Borders, IVDate/TimeTuesday 7 July 2020: 16.30-18.00 OrganiserLauren Rozenberg, Department of History of Art, University College London Moderator/ChairAgata Zielinska, Department of History, University College London Paper 810-aFlesh Side: Sharing Bodies with New Haven, Beinecke Library, MS 84(Language: English) Kayla Lunt, Department of Art History, Indiana University, Bloomington Index Terms: Art History - General; Manuscripts and PalaeographyPaper 810-b'Fair […] as any wezele': A Study of the Unnatural Body in Medieval Literature(Language: English) Caitlin Mahaffy, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington Index Terms: Language and Literature - Middle English; Social HistoryPaper 810-cLiving the Life of Man, Not the Mule: Reason and Self-Knowledge in Cistercian Texts on the Soul(Language: English) Jack Ford, Department of History, University College London Index Terms: Monasticism; Social History AbstractThe distinction between man and animal, the human and non-human, was a fluid one in the Middle Ages. Within the sphere of morality - a distinctly human trait - the shadow of animality was always lurking the background. As the writings of 12th century Cistercians and the poetry of Chaucer attest, the sinful behaviour of man was labelled in reference to the animal, being characterised by unbridled, rather than restrained, desire. And the very animal-skin manuscripts on which this moral thought was written reveals that the power of animals, even after death, to be in dialogue with, and shape the interpretation of, a text. IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Tuesday 7 July 2020: 19.00-20.00Session910Title(Un)Bound Bodies: New Approaches - A Round Table DiscussionDate/TimeTuesday 7 July 2020: 19.00-20.00 OrganiserLauren Rozenberg, Department of History of Art, University College London Moderator/ChairJack Ford, Department of History, University College London AbstractFor decades, bodies have been a central framework for historical inquiries. No matter how much we try to distance ourselves from them, bodies remain at the centre and borders of scholarship. Medieval bodies were fluid and contradictory loci: bound and unbound, contained yet susceptible to a host of external physical and invisible forces. Bodily boundaries were paradoxically sharp, debated, and real, yet also fluid, permeable, and imaginary. This round table discussion seeks to investigate these 'real' and 'imaginary' borders of the body and to complicate and critique existing narratives of 'bound bodies'. It aims to embrace innovative and interdisciplinary approaches that push back, and go beyond, established methodologies. Participants include Elma Brenner (University College London), Joanne Edge (University of Manchester), Jacqueline Jung (Yale University), and Lauren Rozenberg (University College London). Wednesday 8 July 2020IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Wednesday 8 July 2020: 11.15-12.45Session1101TitleSessions in Honor of Stephen D. White, II: Medieval Legal Processes and DisputingDate/TimeWednesday 8 July 2020: 11.15-12.45 OrganiserRichard E. Barton, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Tracey L. Billado, Department of History, Queens College, City University of New York Moderator/ChairHans Jacob Orning, Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie, Universitetet i Oslo Paper 1101-aDisputes over Customs in Central Medieval France(Language: English) Tracey L. Billado, Department of History, Queens College, City University of New York Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; LawPaper 1101-bVisigothic Law and the Settlement of Disputes in Northern Iberia, c. 900-1100(Language: English) Daria Safronova, Department of Medieval History, Lomonosov Moscow State University Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; LawPaper 1101-cPleading with Demons: Possession and Property in 14th-Century Brittany(Language: English) Jehangir Yezdi Malegam, History Department, Duke University Index Terms: Hagiography; Law AbstractThe second of the sessions in honor of Stephen D. White demonstrates the importance of processual, case-study approaches to the study of disputes and law, approaches White pioneered in medieval history. Billado uses 11th-century disputes over customs, tithes, and parish revenues in 'greater-Anjou' to argue that medieval disputants knew how to process their conflicts. Safronova examines the role of Visigothic law in the settlement of disputes in central medieval León, highlighting the importance of unwritten legal rules and the relationship of such rules to other normative systems. Malegam discusses an inquest into the life and miracles of Ivo of Kermartin, using the source to demonstrate the emergence of certain public legal institutions in late medieval Brittany that transformed expectations of saintly advocacy. Session1118TitleMedieval Ecocriticisms, II: Crafting and Defining NatureDate/TimeWednesday 8 July 2020: 11.15-12.45 SponsorMedieval Ecocriticisms OrganiserMichael Bintley, Department of English &#38; Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London Moderator/ChairMichael J. Warren, Independent Scholar, Cranbrook Paper 1118-aConcealing and Revealing 'Craft' in Exeter Book Poems and Riddles(Language: English) James Antonio Paz, School of Arts, Languages &#38; Cultures, University of Manchester Index Terms: Language and Literature - Old English; TechnologyPaper 1118-bThe Edge of the Woods: Species and Gender in Le Roman de Silence(Language: English) Aylin Malcolm, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania Index Terms: Gender Studies; Language and Literature - French or Occitan; SciencePaper 1118-cDisability and Environment in Old English Poetry(Language: English) Heide Estes, Department of English, Monmouth University, New Jersey Index Terms: Daily Life; Language and Literature - Old English AbstractThese papers address human approaches to ordering and organising the world in the Middle Ages, investigating methods and modes of description through which humans endeavoured to define and categorise humans, non-human animals, and environment - or to question the unstable boundaries between them. Paz explores the interplay between divine 'craft' and acts of making and transformation by early medieval poets and other craftspeople; Malcolm considers interwoven hierarchies of gender and species in the 13th-century Roman de Silence as a means of interrogating contemporary classificatory schemes; and Estes discusses parallel approaches to disability and environment in early English poetry. Session1157Title#DisMed 3: Disability and Accessibility in Higher Education - A Round Table DiscussionDate/TimeWednesday 8 July 2020: 11.15-12.45 SponsorMedievalists with Disabilities OrganiserAlexandra R. A. Lee, Department of History, University College London Moderator/ChairElizabeth Biggs, History Department, University of the West of England, Bristol AbstractDisability and accessibility are two key issues in Higher Education. While they do not solely affect the medieval community, it is important to bring such issues to the fore to improve access across the board. This round-table will address disability, mental (ill) heath, neurodiversity, and chronic illness, and participants will highlight issues as well as examples of good practice in various academic environments. Participants include Alice Bennett (University of York), Hope Doherty (Durham University), Catherine Maguire (Queen Mary University of London), and Jude Seal (University of London). IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Wednesday 8 July 2020: 14.15-15.45Session1208TitleGrowing Old in the Middle Ages: A Gendered Perspective, I - Social PracticesDate/TimeWednesday 8 July 2020: 14.15-15.45 SponsorAnthropologie historique du long Moyen Âge (AHLOMA), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris OrganiserLaura Cayrol-Bernardo, Centre de Recherches Historiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris Moderator/ChairLaura Cayrol-Bernardo, Centre de Recherches Historiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris Paper 1208-aToo Old to Work: The End of Working Life in Medieval Catalonia(Language: English) Mireia Comas-Via, Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Daily Life; Gender Studies; Social HistoryPaper 1208-bGender, Old Age, Disability, and Religiosity: The Intersectionality Invoked by Petitioners to Contravene Christian Prescriptions(Language: English) Ninon Dubourg, Laboratoire Identités Cultures et Territoires (ICT), Université Diderot Paris 7 Index Terms: Gender Studies; Religious Life; Social HistoryPaper 1208-cThe 'Suitable Age': Elderly Nuns and Ageing in Iberian Female Monasteries, c. 12th-16th Centuries(Language: English) Araceli Rosillo-Luque, Arxiu-Biblioteca dels Franciscans de Catalunya, Barcelona Index Terms: Gender Studies; Monasticism; Religious Life; Social History AbstractOver the last few decades, studies on the biological, economic, social, psychological, and cultural aspects of old age have multiplied, due to current debate on ageing in western populations and its impact in our societies. However, despite the vast possibilities in social sciences to develop this topic of research, the subject still has not received the attention it deserves. This is particularly true when it comes to gender studies. This session aims to analyse different attitudes about ageing and old age in Medieval Western Europe, bearing in mind how these affected both men and women.  IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Wednesday 8 July 2020: 16.30-18.00 Session1305TitleCrusade and Authority in the Holy Land and in EuropeDate/TimeWednesday 8 July 2020: 16.30-18.00 OrganiserIMC Programming Committee Moderator/ChairHelen J. Nicholson, School of History, Archaeology &#38; Religion, Cardiff University Paper 1305-aThe Third Time Was Not the Charm?: Philip Augustus, the Crusading Movement, and the Growth of Capetian Authority after the Third Crusade(Language: English) Darren Henry-Noel, Department of History, Queen's University, Kingston Index Terms: Administration; Crusades; Historiography - Modern Scholarship; Politics and DiplomacyPaper 1305-bTerra sancta?: Questioning the Christian Character of the Latin East in the Wake of Territorial Loss(Language: English) Emma Zürcher, Department of History, University College London Index Terms: Crusades; Geography and Settlement Studies; Social HistoryPaper 1305-cIllness as God's Punishment and the Borders of Honor Imperii(Language: English) Monja Katja Schünemann, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin Index Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Literacy and Orality; Medicine AbstractPaper -a: My paper argues that the crusading movement was a significant contributor to the social and political landscape of Capetian France, and suggests that Philip's strong support and participation in the crusading movement proved crucial to the emergence of a centralized royal bureaucracy. In asserting the organic nature of crusading in the development of Capetian monarchical authority under Philip, this paper offers a focused reassessment of the intersection of crusading and Capetian monarchical interests that challenges the traditional paradigm of analysis that regards increased bureaucratization as evidence of secularization. Instead, it argues that the wider sociocultural milieu of crusading provided the necessary conditions for the success of Philip's expansion of Capetian political authority through a firm association of the monarchy with crusading. My paper argues that the strengthening of this relationship lay at the heart of Philip's ideological program, and that his reign engaged with the cultural and political impact of crusading to reframe the discourse of medieval sovereignty. Paper -b: My paper will examine whether 12th-century authors, commentating on defeats suffered in the Latin East, still considered territory to be Christian after it had been lost to the Muslim forces. Through analysis of contemporary source material, including papal bulls, letters sent to the West, chronicles, annals, and troubadours songs, I look at how ideas about the intrinsic 'Christianness' of the Holy Land, arising from its historical importance, compete with the reality of temporary ownership. Does enemy occupation eradicate the previously held sense of societal belonging to a place in favour of its total exclusion from Christendom? Paper -c: When an apparently sudden epidemic broke out in Barbarosssa's army before Rome in 1167, this sensation occupied whole Europe. Voices were quickly heard blaming the emperor for the event. He had expelled pope Alexander II from Rome in order to appoint Paschalis III. Only the imperial court remained silent. Gottfried von Viterbo's poem as a source has so far been neglected. In it, the author evokes five cosmological inner images based on Ad Herennium before the reader's inner eye. These images are intended to prove that whoever died had been rejected by God from the border of honor imperii because of disobedience.  Session1308TitleGrowing Old in the Middle Ages: A Gendered Perspective, II - RepresentationsDate/TimeWednesday 8 July 2020: 16.30-18.00 SponsorAnthropologie historique du long Moyen Âge (AHLOMA), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris OrganiserLaura Cayrol-Bernardo, Centre de Recherches Historiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris Moderator/ChairAraceli Rosillo-Luque, Arxiu-Biblioteca dels Franciscans de Catalunya, Barcelona Paper 1308-aMaledicta vetula: Deconstructing Women's Old Age in the Medieval Western Mediterranean(Language: English) Laura Cayrol-Bernardo, Centre de Recherches Historiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris Index Terms: Art History - General; Gender Studies; Medicine; MentalitiesPaper 1308-bThe Limits of the Stages of Life and Temporality in the Middle Ages(Language: English) Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Index Terms: Art History - General; Art History - Painting; Art History - Sculpture; Gender StudiesPaper 1308-cAgeing Bodies and Obscenity in Late Medieval French Poetry(Language: English) Camille Brouzes, Litt&#38;Arts (UMR 5316), Université Grenoble Alpes Index Terms: Gender Studies; Language and Literature - French or Occitan AbstractOver the last few decades, studies on the biological, economic, social, psychological and cultural aspects of old age have multiplied, due to current debate on ageing in western populations and its impact in our societies. However, despite the vast possibilities in social sciences to develop this topic of research, the subject still has not received the attention it deserves. This is particularly true when it comes to gender studies. This session aims to analyse different attitudes about ageing and old age in medieval Western Europe, bearing in mind how these affected both men and women.  Session1339TitleThe Northern Way, II: (Arch)Bishops and the Anglo-Scottish Borders in the 14th CenturyDate/TimeWednesday 8 July 2020: 16.30-18.00 SponsorUniversity of York OrganiserSarah Rees Jones, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Moderator/ChairGwilym Dodd, Department of History, University of Nottingham Paper 1339-aMedical Knowledge and the (Arch)Bishop in the Later Medieval Archdiocese of York(Language: English) Katherine Harvey, Department of History, Classics &#38; Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London Index Terms: Administration; Ecclesiastical History; Medicine; Religious LifePaper 1339-bWho Got What in the Scramble for Patronage?(Language: English) Alison McHardy, Department of History, University of Nottingham Index Terms: Administration; Ecclesiastical History; Politics and Diplomacy; Religious LifePaper 1339-cEpiscopal Authority and Urban Governance in the North of England in the 14th Century(Language: English) Sarah Rees Jones, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Index Terms: Administration; Ecclesiastical History; Local History; Social History AbstractThis session will explore the evidence provided by the registers of the Archbishops of York for the role of the archbishops as northern leaders and political actors in the North of England in the 14th century. Session1356TitleSignifying Bodies in 14th- and 15th-Century English WritingDate/TimeWednesday 8 July 2020: 16.30-18.00 OrganiserIMC Programming Committee Moderator/ChairCarolyn B. Anderson, Department of English, University of Wyoming Paper 1356-aThe Legend of Margery Kempe: Reading Scarred Skin in The Book of Margery Kempe(Language: English) Emily Harless, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Studies, University of Manchester Index Terms: Language and Literature - Middle English; Religious LifePaper 1356-bThe Invisible Knight: Perceptions of Disability in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur(Language: English) Linda Steele, Faculty of Arts &#38; Social Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa Index Terms: Crusades; Language and Literature - Middle English; Medicine; Social HistoryPaper 1356-cWatery Wirrals and Liquified Knights: Exploring Elemental Ecologies in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight(Language: English) Sarah Breckenridge Wright, Department of English, Duquesne University, Pennsylvania Index Terms: Language and Literature - Middle English; Science AbstractPaper -a: In the Book of Margery Kempe, the famed and controversial mystic Margery Kempe inflicts herself with scars - scratching on her chest and a bite on her hand - marking the borders of her body with signs that reveal the dangers of her pre-conversion life and that latent threat that may remain. In this paper, I will discuss theories of 'reading skin' and the various implications of reading Margery Kempe's skin: her skin as legendary and the scarring as stigmata, with its various connotations that develop across the medieval period and in modern scholarship. Paper -b: Published in 1485, Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur is a chivalric romance text reflecting late medieval attitudes and values, illuminating contemporary ideologies of social situations involving disability in the chivalric community. In Le Morte Darthur, Laura Finke observes that 'violence provides the foundation for an elaborate structure of exchange which determines hierarchies among men; it functions as a form of what anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu refers to as symbolic capital.' By examining the text, it is possible to ascertain medieval ideas and responses to disability through the character's reaction to their own and other's infirmities caused by violence. These attitudes, in turn, illustrate the development of societal views regarding disability, thereby pushing the boundaries of what societies consider 'normal'. Paper -c: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has received a great deal of ecocritical attention, yet studies have overlooked the elemental complexity of the poet’s world. Though Gawain travels through a forested Wirral, the poet associates this landscape more with water/air than earth. As Gawain navigates the forest, our eyes are directed to the sky when we are told of the 'mony bryddez' therein, and the forest floor is 'misy and myre': a wetland more pool/stream than detritus/duff (MED, mīre, n.[1], 2). My paper examines this elemental association, arguing that Gawain’s association with water/air distinguishes him from the Green Knight, who is associated with earth/fire. This separation begins metaphorically, but it is also literalized, most interestingly in Gawain's humoral ecology. When Gawain cries, we are reminded of how humankind impacts the world by literally becoming the world through an exchange of fluids. Here the poet extends the familiar Green Knight/earth assemblage to Gawain/water; each character becomes a unique elemental body that challenges boundaries between human and more-than-human worlds, and realizes the imaginative potential of integrative ecologies.Thursday 9 July 2020IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Thursday 9 July 2020: 09.00-10.30Session1511TitleOn the Borders?: Recentring Eunuchs in ByzantiumDate/TimeThursday 9 July 2020: 09.00-10.30 SponsorCardiff Centre for Late Antique Religion &#38; Culture OrganiserShaun Tougher, School of History, Archaeology &#38; Religion, Cardiff University Moderator/ChairEve MacDonald, School of History, Archaeology &#38; Religion, Cardiff University Paper 1511-aThe Border between Eunuchs and Non-Eunuchs in the Novels of the Emperor Leo VI, 886-912(Language: English) Yuki Kontani, School of History, Archaeology &#38; Religion, Cardiff University Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Gender Studies; Law; Social HistoryPaper 1511-bThe Place of the Ethiopian Eunuch in Byzantium(Language: English) Shaun Tougher, School of History, Archaeology &#38; Religion, Cardiff University Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Gender Studies; Religious Life; Social HistoryPaper 1511-cRecentring Marginal Texts/Bodies/Perspectives in the Psalter of an Eunuch Abbot (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Vat. gr. 342)(Language: English) Felix Szabo, Department of History, University of Chicago Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Gender Studies; Language and Literature - Greek; Religious Life AbstractIt is all too easy to consign eunuchs to the borders as beings of marginal social and gender identities. This session focuses on eunuchs in the Byzantine empire and recentres them within narratives of their lives. Yuki Kontani examines the legislation of Leo VI, considering issues of marriage and adoption. Shaun Tougher explores the significance for Byzantine eunuchs of the story of the Ethiopian Eunuch from the 'Acts of the Apostles'. Felix Szabo focuses on a manuscript produced for a eunuch abbot, containing three epigrams by him. These reveal the lived experience of eunuch monasticism. Session1521TitleMeteorology, Miracles, and Medicine: Traversing the Borders of Magic in Medieval EuropeDate/TimeThursday 9 July 2020: 09.00-10.30 SponsorGraduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading OrganiserRebecca A. C. Rist, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading Moderator/ChairAnne Mathers-Lawrence, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading Paper 1521-a'In the scholarly no man's land?': The Popularity of Late Medieval Weather Prognostics(Language: English) Janet Walls, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading Index Terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography; Medicine; SciencePaper 1521-bCharms, Amulets, and Ligatures: The Boundaries of Magic, Medicine, and Religion in the Middle Ages(Language: English) Victoria Page, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading Index Terms: Medicine; Religious Life; SciencePaper 1521-c'And sche shall be delyveryd a-non with-owȝt perell': Medicinal, Magical, and Miraculous Treatments for Childbirth in Late Medieval England(Language: English) Claire Collins, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading Index Terms: Medicine; Social History; Women's Studies AbstractThis panel will explore the boundaries of magic in the Middle Ages and the inherent tensions between belief and science. The first paper will analyse the ways in which late medieval weather prognostic texts were defined and used in comparison to early medieval ones. The second paper will examine the connections, but also blurred boundaries, between miracles, medicine, and magic and examine what was considered a miracle or medical cure, and what magic or demonic. The final paper will discuss treatments for pregnant women in late medieval England which aided childbirth and often traversed the boundaries of our modern concepts of medicine, magic, and religion. IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Thursday 9 July 2020: 11.15-12.45Session1621TitleHealth Identities across and within BordersDate/TimeThursday 9 July 2020: 11.15-12.45 OrganiserElma Brenner, Wellcome Collection, London Moderator/ChairWendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology &#38; Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia Paper 1621-aThe Transmission of the Culture of Materia Medica around the Medieval Mediterranean(Language: English) Ayman Yasin Atat, Abteilung für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften mit Schwerpunkt Pharmaziegeschichte, Technische Universität Braunschweig Index Terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies; Medicine; SciencePaper 1621-bCrossing the Border: The Movement of Materia Medica in the Carolingian World(Language: English) Claire Burridge, Humanities Research Programme, British School at Rome Index Terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography; Medicine; SciencePaper 1621-cTravel and Health: England and France in the Later Middle Ages(Language: English) Elma Brenner, Wellcome Collection, London Index Terms: Daily Life; Medicine; Social History AbstractThis session explores the movement of medical practitioners, substances, and ideas across and within geographic borders over a broad time span. Both Burridge and Atat set medieval Europe in a global context. Burridge examines the evidence in early medieval recipe collections for the circulation of medicinal products from southeast Asia in Europe, while Atat considers the transmission of Arabic and Ottoman pharmaceutical knowledge in the Mediterranean region. Brenner and Rawcliffe's paper focuses on travel and health in late medieval England and France, especially the careers of peripatetic medical practitioners. Adaptation, translation and shifting identities, as well as borders, are prominent themes in this session. IMC 2020: sessions for timeslot Thursday 9 July 2020: 14.15-15.45Session1703TitleDisabled and Disabling AnimalsDate/TimeThursday 9 July 2020: 14.15-15.45 SponsorM(edieval) A(nimal) D(ata-Network), Central European University, Budapest/Wien OrganiserAlice Choyke, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest/Wien Moderator/ChairGerhard Jaritz, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest/Wien Paper 1703-aDisabled by Animal: Medieval Human-Animal Encounters Gone Wrong(Language: English) Irina Metzler, College of Arts &#38; Humanities, Swansea University Index Terms: Daily Life; MedicinePaper 1703-bHorses, Hawks, and Other One-Legged Beasts: Injuries to Animals in Medieval Welsh Law(Language: English) Edgar Rops, Independent Scholar, Riga Index Terms: Daily Life; LawPaper 1703-c'You have no more feeling than a blind cart-horse!': Caring for Impaired Horses in the Late Middle Ages(Language: English) Sunny Harrison, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Index Terms: Daily Life; MedicinePaper 1703-d'Send Forth the Foot of the Cow': Deliverance and Piety in a Medieval Portuguese Cult(Language: English) David Luís Aniceto Soares, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Index Terms: Daily Life; Lay Piety; Religious Life AbstractDisability of animals can be connected with their physical inabilities that remove them from economic exploitation by humans. It can reflect notions of what disability means for humans, in metaphorical, symbolic, and normative ways. Finally, the practical aspects can certainly interact with the notional ones creating new categories of what it meant to be a disabled medieval animal. The session will explore any kind of injury, illness, attack, or general disablement of animals and the way human beings reacted to these problems, and also human disablements through animal encounters. Session1721TitleBloodletting within the Borders of Media, Medicine, and SpeciesDate/TimeThursday 9 July 2020: 14.15-15.45 OrganiserElke Krotz, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien Moderator/ChairNicolas Huss, Deutsches Seminar, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Paper 1721-aSingle-Sheet Wall Calendar, Manuscript, or Printed Treatise: A Media History of Bloodletting Texts(Language: English) Elke Krotz, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Wien Index Terms: Language and Literature - German; Language and Literature - Latin; Manuscripts and Palaeography; MedicinePaper 1721-b'Hie solt du niht lazen': A Universal Remedy at Its Limits(Language: English) Ylva Schwinghammer, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Graz Index Terms: Language and Literature - German; MedicinePaper 1721-cTransbordering: From Bloodletting to Transfusion(Language: English) Lisa Glänzer, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Graz Index Terms: Medicine; Science AbstractBloodletting is considered as one of the most popular therapeutic methods of the Middle Ages and was recommended for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of various illnesses. This session explores some points of intersection between theory and practice, physicians and barber-surgeons and human and veterinary medicine. Paper -a: What do different media - single-sheet wall calendars, bloodletting treatises in manuscripts and informations given in account books - tell about physicians, barbers and patients? Why were single-sheet leaves inserted in manuscripts and vice versa manuscript pages used as a vademecum? How do printed and handwritten texts interdepend? (E. Krotz) Paper -b: The limits of contraindications: Instructions for bloodletting can be found in nearly every medieval medical text. However, a closer look reveals a number of indications to determine whether or not bloodletting is suitable, like vitality, temperament, age, symptoms, pregnancy, temperature, zodiac signs, date… If these rules are consequently followed, the actual practice runs within narrow bounds. (Y. Schwinghammer) Paper -c: Transbordering - from bloodletting to xenotransfusion: Bloodletting not only describes the healing process for the reduction or removal of harmful bodily fluids, but also represents a method for obtaining blood from vertebrates, culminating in the blood transfusion from animals to humans in the course of the 17th century. Blood was thus attributed a life-preserving or life-donating function. The idea that its transfer not only transforms strength and health, but also character traits, also raises questions about the role of the blood-donating animal. (L. Glänzer)   