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 You can see the full Leeds' program here MONDAYSession111TitleRages, Rampages, and Wounds: Emotions in Epic LiteratureDate/TimeMonday 1 July 2019: 11.15-12.45 SponsorSociété Rencesvals British Branch OrganiserHailey Ogle, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies / School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews Moderator/ChairEmma Campbell, Department of French Studies, University of Warwick Paper 111-aHurling Spears and Burning Convents: Anger in Raoul de Cambrai(Language: English) Hailey Ogle, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies / School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews Index Terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan; Mentalities; Politics and DiplomacyPaper 111-bLegitimizing Arthur’s Rule: Wounding and Emotions in Off Arthour &#38; Of Merlin(Language: English) Laura Bernardazzi, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews Index Terms: Language and Literature - Comparative; Language and Literature - French or Occitan; Language and Literature - Middle English; MedicinePaper 111-cEmotions, Actions, and Outcomes: A Comparative Analysis of the Relatio metrica and La Destruction de Rome(Language: English) Amanda Swinford, Department of History, Portland State University, Oregon Index Terms: Language and Literature - Comparative; Language and Literature - French or Occitan; Language and Literature - Latin; Religious Life AbstractEmotions are an intrinsic element of medieval epic literature. Their representation, performance, and function in a specific text offer critical insights into the social, political, religious, and cultural world within which that text was produced and transmitted. The papers in this session will examine the ways in which emotions are deeply connected to cultural ideologies; how the presence of emotions in a text can change the emotive response of the text's intended audience; and how emotions drive and prompt physical actions and responses. Analysing medieval French, English, and Latin literatures of the high and late Middle Ages, this session will ultimately demonstrate the benefit, and indeed, necessity of the study of emotions in medieval literatures. Session120TitleBodies and Souls: Image, Text, MaterialityDate/TimeMonday 1 July 2019: 11.15-12.45 OrganiserIMC Programming Committee Moderator/ChairAndrea Mancini, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Paper 120-a'Geswinc, geswel ond wyrmas': Understanding Cancer in Anglo-Saxon England(Language: English) Berber Bossenbroek, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit Leiden Index Terms: Language and Literature - Old English; MedicinePaper 120-bKind Death: Greeting the Soul in 14th-Century Venice(Language: English) Sarah Schell, School of Arts &#38; Sciences, American University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Index Terms: Art History - Painting; Lay Piety; Social HistoryPaper 120-cMaterialità del corpo nella medicina medievale araba(Language: Italiano) Sara Lenzi, Departamento de Historia de la Filosofía, Estética y Teoría del Conocimiento, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Index Terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies; Medicine; Philosophy AbstractPaper -a: While the Anglo-Saxon medical text corpus has received increasing scholarly attention over the past few decades, no in-depth study of the Anglo-Saxon understanding of the diseases that are known today under the umbrella term 'cancer' has yet been conducted. The Anglo-Saxon text corpus contains a substantial number of texts that deal with the diagnosis and treatment of various cancers. This paper examines what materials were available to the Anglo-Saxon læce [leech] when encountering cancer. Using both literary and medical texts as sources, my paper will explore the understanding the Anglo-Saxons had of different types of cancer, what remedies they used, and how effective these remedies can be said to have been in light of today's medical knowledge. Paper -b: The figure of Death made an appearance in many literary and visual genres in the 14th century, often in images of gruesome decay, restless corpses, and vain skeletons. These scenes of Death present a combative and predatory figure. In contrast, in a small 14th-century Venetian panel, Death appears in a role usually occupied by the saints: Death as intercessor, presenting a soul to the merciful Madonna. The presentation of a Death-figure in this manner raises questions about the role and function of intercessory figures, and presents a visual challenge to the traditional combative characterization of Death. Was there a place for a 'Kind Death' in 14th-century visual tradition and religious thought? Paper -c: Il corpo, nella sua materialità, fu qualcosa di imprescindibile anche per quei filosofi, saggi, medici, che in epoca medievale, tendevano a cercare e dare risposte prevalentemente di carattere metafisico. In alcuni campi più che in altri, pensiamo alla medicina, tralasciare il corpo sarebbe equivalso a lasciare da parte la disciplina stessa. Ne sono dimostrazione gli studi, necessariamente in gran parte empirici (pensiamo all'oftalmologia o l'urologia), le pratiche concrete e l'uso di utensili ad hoc, di molti medici arabi. Inoltre la separazione voluta da Averroè, tra fisiologia e anatomia, conferì a quest'ultima, autonomia e dignità rendendo il corpo umano una vera e propria RES.   Session218TitleBody Matters: Exploring the Materiality of the Medieval Human BodyDate/TimeMonday 1 July 2019: 14.15-15.45 SponsorUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter OrganiserHarriett Webster, School of Archaeology, History &#38; Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter Moderator/ChairLouise Steel, Faculty of Humanities &#38; Performing Arts, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter Paper 218-aAll Fingers, No Thumbs: The Materiality of a Medieval Relic(Language: English) Janet Burton, Faculty of Humanities &#38; Performing Arts, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter Index Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Monasticism; Religious LifePaper 218-b'My Precious Body': The (Im)Materiality of the Body in Margaret of York's Manuscripts(Language: English) Erica Blair O'Brien, Department of History of Art, University of Bristol Index Terms: Art History - General; Lay Piety; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Religious LifePaper 218-cThe Resuscitation of the Twice-Hanged Man: Miracles and the Body in Medieval Swansea(Language: English) Harriett Webster, School of Archaeology, History &#38; Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter Index Terms: Lay Piety; Local History; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Theology AbstractThis session examines medieval attitudes towards the materiality of the human body through three case studies: the finger relic of St Germanus of Auxerre from Selby Abbey; the portrait illuminations of Margaret of York; and the hanged corpse of a Welsh rebel. The surviving manuscript evidence in each case helps us to develop a more rounded understanding of medieval perceptions of materiality and agency in relation to the body, in particular popular and elite beliefs about death, decay, and incorruptibility. A new publication featuring these papers will also be launched by University of Wales Press at the IMC this year. Session347TitleMonsters and Mental HealthDate/TimeMonday 1 July 2019: 16.30-18.00 SponsorMonsters: The Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory and Practical Application (MEARCSTAPA) OrganiserKayla Kemhadjian, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Moderator/ChairWendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology &#38; Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia Paper 347-aMental Health and the Demonic in Early Medieval England(Language: English) Peter Dendle, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, Monto Alto Index Terms: Daily Life; MedicinePaper 347-bMonsters of Silence: The Pestiferous and the Monstrous in Late-Medieval Depictions of Carthusians and in Carthusian Writings(Language: English) Tom Gaens, Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Index Terms: Art History - General; Language and Literature - Latin; MonasticismPaper 347-cMental Health and the Pathology of Monsters in Early English Medicine(Language: English) Gwendolyne Knight, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet Index Terms: Language and Literature - Old English; Medicine; MentalitiesPaper 347-dMadness and the Boundaries of the Human in Anglo-Saxon England(Language: English) Marit Ronen, Independent Scholar, Upper Galilee Index Terms: Language and Literature - Old English; Social History AbstractIn modern times, mental health issues, like monsters, are used in fictive discourses to create a binary of the 'normal'. In some instances, mental health is exploited as a marker of the monstrous, if not the monster itself. Similar instances abound in the Middle Ages, when the border between mental health and the supernatural ran thin. This panel seeks to examine the interconnectedness of mental health and the monstrous. In doing so, this panel may uncover and examine medieval stigmas around mental health which still permeate western society. TuesdaySession520Title'Deformis formositas ac formosa deformitas' / The Ugliness of Beauty and the Beauty of Ugliness, I: Ugliness and Deformity in Medieval TextsDate/TimeTuesday 2 July 2019: 09.00-10.30 OrganiserTeodora Artimon, Trivent Publishing, Budapest Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia Moderator/ChairTeodora Artimon, Trivent Publishing, Budapest Paper 520-aThe Grotesque Male Revenant and the Gorgeous Female Revenant: The Dichotomy of Ugliness Post-Mortem in English Chronicles(Language: English) Candace Reilly, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Index Terms: Gender Studies; SciencePaper 520-bThe Ugly Body Is 'a shame of nature': Perceptions of Ugliness in Byzantine Medieval Texts(Language: English) Oana Maria Cojocaru, Department of Historical, Philosophical &#38; Religious Studies, University of Umea Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; MentalitiesPaper 520-cThe Dwarf of Hispanic Chivalric Literature(Language: English) Juan Pablo Mauricio García Álvarez, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico Index Terms: Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese; MentalitiesPaper 520-dDelightfully Grotesque: Beautiful Representations of Ugliness in Late Medieval France(Language: English) Kleio Pethainou, Edinburgh College of Art, University of EdinburghIndex Terms: Art History - General; Art History - Painting; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Mentalities AbstractThe session discusses the concept of 'ugliness' in textual sources pertaining to the medieval East and West. It focuses on the narrative function of ugliness, embodied in the figure of the dwarf, by tracing its construction and development in Hispanic chivalric literature and culture. It highlights gendered aspects, in English chronicles and religious sources, by contrasting the sensuality/beauty of the undead female with the deformed/decomposed male corpse. Furthermore, it discusses the forms and representations of ugliness in the framework of attitudes towards the imperfect body in Byzantine medieval texts. Finally, the session discusses manuscript illuminations from Late Medieval France that represent the ugly and the grotesque, and treat ugliness as something beautiful and worthy to be emphasised by analyzing their social contexts and patronage. Session550TitleHealth in Medieval Urban SocietyDate/TimeTuesday 2 July 2019: 09.00-10.30 OrganiserIMC Programming Committee Moderator/ChairIrina Metzler, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Paper 550-aMaßnahmen zur Verbesserung der städtischen Hygiene im mittelalterlichen Leipzig(Language: Deutsch) Jill Rehfeldt, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 1913 'Kulturelle und technische Werte historischer Bauten', Brandenburgische Technische Universität, Cottbus-Seftenberg Index Terms: Archaeology - Sites; Daily Life; TechnologyPaper 550-bHealth Regulations in Late Medieval London(Language: English) Wendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology &#38; Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia Index Terms: Daily Life; Law; Medicine; Social HistoryPaper 550-cAdvice and Recipes against Plague in 15th-Century Portugal(Language: English) Dulce Oliveira Amarante dos Santos, Faculdade de História, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil Index Terms: Medicine; Social History AbstractPaper -a: Entgegen populärer Anschauungen waren die Ver- und Entsorgung von Wasser, die Beseitigung von Abfällen und Exkrementen sowie ein ansehnliches Stadtbild zentrale Themen der mittelalterlichen Kommunen. Als Messe- und Universitätsstadt am Kreuzungspunkt der via imperii und via regia gelegen war Leipzig schon im Mittelalter von einem hohen Bevölkerungsanstieg, einer starken Handelstätigkeit und Mobilität geprägt, was sich auf die hygienischen Verhältnisse auswirkte. Die Bemühungen des Rates, die Stadt mit ausreichend Wasser zu versorgen und der Verschmutzung beizukommen, lassen sich in den archäologischen und historischen Quellen ablesen. Der Fokus des Papers liegt daher in den städtebaulichen Maßnahmen, die diese Bemühungen nach sich zogen. Paper -b: This research examines the health regulations and laws passed both before and after the outbreak of the plague. London local regulations regarding the health and wellbeing of the citizens inside the walls and just outside the walls as well as similar royal legal changes altered the way commerce was practiced, who was permitted inside the walls at what times of the day and night, and how people looked at illness and health. Paper -c: In the realm of Portugal, after the Black Death (1348-1349) there are several outbreaks of plague during the 15th century. This fact then generated an interest on medical matters inside the royal court. The Portuguese prince and later king D. Duarte (1434-1438) included in his personal library some titles on medicine, such as Canon of Avicena, Book of Leper and so on. He used to talk with the court Jewish physician and astrologue Master Guedelha and others about medical practices. The king, worried on the kingdom's health, had compiled some advices and recipes (mezinhas in archaic Portuguese) against plague in his Book of Cartuxa or Book of Advices. Session553TitleIt's Personal: The Impact of Lived Experience on the Conceptualization of the Sacred, IDate/TimeTuesday 2 July 2019: 09.00-10.30 OrganiserEinat Klafter, Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University Moderator/ChairAmanda Langley, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London Paper 553-a'Making your bed and having Christ lie in it': Suffering, Bibliotherapy, and Christus Medicus in Devotio ModernaSister-Books and Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Love(Language: English) Godelinde Gertrude Perk, Independent Scholar, Umeå Index Terms: Language and Literature - Middle English; Medicine; Theology; Women's StudiesPaper 553-b'Is any payne like this?': Julian of Norwich and a Phenomenology of Illness(Language: English) Hannah Lucas, Faculty of English Language &#38; Literature, University of Oxford Index Terms: Language and Literature - Middle English; Medicine; Theology; Women's StudiesPaper 553-cExperiencing the Trauma of the Cross: Divine Passibility in the Mystical Experience of Angela of Foligno(Language: English) Christina Llanes, Divinity School, University of Chicago Index Terms: Language and Literature - Italian; Medicine; Theology; Women's Studies AbstractScholarship on the lived experiences of female mystics generally focuses on how these experiences contributed to the construction of holy women's selfhood and their wider social roles. Less attention has been paid to how such personal histories influenced the conceptualization of the divine within late-medieval female affective piety. The papers will examine the different articulations of the unio mystica in light of the individual experiences of holy women, particularly issues of trauma and pain, and explore how such an approach allows us to look at the work of late-medieval female mystics no longer as a homogenous corpus but as an ensemble of unique and idiosyncratic texts. Session613TitleAgeing in Late Medieval Europe: A Gendered PerspectiveDate/TimeTuesday 2 July 2019: 11.15-12.45 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/ChairAraceli Rosillo-Luque, Arxiu-Biblioteca dels Franciscans de Catalunya, Barcelona Paper 613-aLaughing at Growing Old: Ageing and Self-Derision in Late Medieval French Poetry(Language: English) Camille Brouzes, Litt&#38;Arts (UMR 5316), Université Grenoble AlpesIndex Terms: Gender Studies; Language and Literature - French or Occitan; MentalitiesPaper 613-bBetween Futility and Insatiable Lust: Attitudes about Ageing and Sexuality in Late Medieval Iberia(Language: English) Laura Cayrol-Bernardo, Centre de Recherches Historiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris Index Terms: Gender Studies; Medicine; Mentalities; SexualityPaper 613-cEnding Their Days at the Hospital: Old Women in Catalonia during the Late Middle Ages(Language: English) Mireia Comas-Via, Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Daily Life; Gender Studies; 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 aging and old age in Late Medieval Western Europe, bearing in mind how these affected both men and women. Our goal is to stress the legitimate importance of integrating age as an important category in studies on medieval gender, open new perspectives on a neglected topic, and raise awareness of its relevance and the permanence of some of its main characteristics in today's world. Session620Title'Deformis formositas ac formosa deformitas' / The Ugliness of Beauty and the Beauty of Ugliness, II: Materializing Ugliness and Deformity in the Middle AgesDate/TimeTuesday 2 July 2019: 11.15-12.45 OrganiserTeodora Artimon, Trivent Publishing, Budapest Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia Moderator/ChairTeodora Artimon, Trivent Publishing, Budapest Paper 620-aThe Canon Law's Category of the Defectus Corporis and Scandal(Language: English) Ninon Dubourg, Laboratoire Identités Cultures et Territoires (ICT), Université Diderot Paris 7 Index Terms: Canon Law; MedicinePaper 620-bTrading in Beauty and Ugliness on Medieval Marriage Market(Language: English) Federica Boldrini, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Studi politici e internazionali, Università di Parma Index Terms: Law; Women's StudiesPaper 620-cDeformity and the Body of the Sinner: Conceptualizing Deformity as Sin in Early Medieval Metaphor and Thought(Language: English) Kayla Kemhadjian, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Index Terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan; Language and Literature - Old English; MentalitiesPaper 620-dThe Identification of Beauty-Ugliness of Animals in Romanesque Church Capitals through Human Emotions(Language: English) Hee Sook Lee-Niinioja, Independent Scholar, Helsinki Index Terms: Architecture - Religious; Art History - Sculpture AbstractThe session debates the gendered aspects of 'ugliness' and its materializations when transferred from one cultural milieu to the other. It concentrates on aspects of beauty/ugliness with regard to the female body in the context of late medieval Italian marriage markets by presenting the circumstances when unmarried unsightly girls were favoured. It presents the defectus corporis of the clerical body as reflected in religious sources, particularly in canon law, in connection to the public's attitude and the solutions offered for such cases. Furthermore, it traces the evolution and connection between sinners and deformity in late 10th century England, into the late 12th century, in the context of the shifts in the conceptualization of ugliness as sinful. Finally, it discusses the dichotomy of beauty-ugliness in the framework of the theological doctrines of Romanesque period and theories of emotions.  Session639TitleThe Sensuality of Things, II: Abilities and DisabilitiesDate/TimeTuesday 2 July 2019: 11.15-12.45 SponsorOswald von Wolkenstein Gesellschaft OrganiserSilvan Wagner, Lehrstuhl für Ältere Deutsche Philologie, Universität Bayreuth Moderator/ChairSieglinde Hartmann, Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main Paper 639-a15th-Century Page Turners: Movement on/through the Pages(Language: English) Raoul DuBois, Deutsches Seminar, Universität Zürich Index Terms: Language and Literature - German; Manuscripts and PalaeographyPaper 639-bTrauma, Narrative, and the Impairment of Memory in the Works of Leonor López de Córdoba and Teresa de Cartagena(Language: English) Catherine Maguire, School of Languages, Linguistics &#38; Film, Queen Mary, University of London Index Terms: Gender Studies; Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese; Women's StudiesPaper 639-cPicturing Disability East and West: Global Perspectives from Medieval Europe and Japan(Language: English) Irina Metzler, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Index Terms: Anthropology; Historiography - Medieval; Mentalities AbstractWithin our second session 'The Sensuality of Things', speakers aim at focusing on the impairment of people, things, and transmission. An almost completely abraded text of Wolkenstein's calendar poem, for example, tells us stories about its use and futility and, in the end, also of the intended structure of the whole manuscript. The autobiographic reflection of female rulers about their trauma gives us an insight into the intersection of gender and memory in late medieval Spain. In the last paper, the speaker focuses on physical disability in Europe and Japan thus offering a comparative examination of the ways people dealt with handicap in pre-modern societies. Session848TitleHuizinga's Waning of the Middle Ages (First Published in 1919) and Its Impact on Cultural History of the Middle AgesDate/TimeTuesday 2 July 2019: 16.30-18.00 SponsorCentre for Religion &#38; Heritage, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen OrganiserMathilde van Dijk, Centre for Religion &#38; Heritage, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Moderator/ChairPaul Binski, Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge Paper 848-aDeath and Illness(Language: English) Catrien Santing, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Index Terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship; MentalitiesPaper 848-bChivalry(Language: English) Mario Damen, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam Index Terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship; MentalitiesPaper 848-cReligion(Language: English) Mathilde van Dijk, Centre for Religion &#38; Heritage, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Historiography - Modern Scholarship; Mentalities AbstractIn 1919, the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga published his Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen, later to be translated into English in 1924, under the title of 'Waning of the Middle Ages', and into several other languages, including German, Finnish, and Russian. Today, it is still in print. Few historical books have had such an impact on the field of medieval studies. Therefore, there is every reason to commemorate its 100th anniversary. In the round table, I would like prominent scholars in the field to assess Huizinga's contribution to the cultural history of the Middle Ages and to discuss the value of his approach and findings today. How did he change medieval history? In how far is it still valuable and if yes, how? How does the Waning connect to present day approaches in various fields, such as the history of emotions, church history, gender studies, art history? Wednesday Session1020TitleThe Body and the Text: Medical Humanities and Medieval Literature, c. 1150-1550, IDate/TimeWednesday 3 July 2019: 09.00-10.30 SponsorCentre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO) / Medical Humanities Research Centre (MHRC), Swansea University OrganiserLaura Kalas Williams, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Alison Williams, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Moderator/ChairWendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology &#38; Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia Paper 1020-aHealth Narratives: Rabelais and the Pox(Language: English) Alison Williams, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Index Terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan; MedicinePaper 1020-b‘Ye die for dole’: Mental Health and Social Reform in Piers Plowman(Language: English) Martin Laidlaw, School of Humanities, University of Dundee Index Terms: Language and Literature - Middle English; MedicinePaper 1020-cBeyond Magic: Maladies and Remedies in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini(Language: English) Karen A. Winstead, Department of English, Ohio State University Index Terms: Language and Literature - Latin; Medicine AbstractThis panel is one in a series of sessions which seeks to investigate how medicine, health, and wellbeing are represented in medieval literature, and how literary texts from this period contribute to training and practice in the Medical Humanities. This panel focuses on issues of mental health, psychological pain, melancholic suffering, and 'unseen' medical conditions, as they play out in medieval texts. Using later medieval literary texts, as well as Old Norse-Icelandic poetry, the session interrogates concepts such as the emotions, the affectivity of pain, and the healer, and asks how current notions of disability and social responsibility interact. Session1120TitleThe Body and the Text: Medical Humanities and Medieval Literature, c. 1150-1550, IIDate/TimeWednesday 3 July 2019: 11.15-12.45 SponsorCentre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO) / Medical Humanities Research Centre (MHRC), Swansea University OrganiserLaura Kalas Williams, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Alison Williams, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Moderator/ChairAlison Williams, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Paper 1120-a'Fet fin amur et concorde entre home and feme': Natural Philosophy and Medical Intertextuality in Yale University, MS Beinecke 492(Language: English) Theresa Lorraine Tyers, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Index Terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan; Language and Literature - Middle English; Manuscripts and Palaeography; MedicinePaper 1120-bTextual Medicine in Medieval England: Charms and the Body(Language: English) Katherine Hindley, Department of English, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Index Terms: Language and Literature - Middle English; Language and Literature - Old English; MedicinePaper 1120-cMedicine, Miracle, and Muddled Methodology(Language: English) Jude Seal, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London Index Terms: Language and Literature - Latin; Medicine AbstractThis panel is one in a series of sessions which seeks to investigate how medicine, health and wellbeing are represented in medieval literature, and how literary texts from this period contribute to training and practice in the Medical Humanities. This panel focuses on manuscript evidence in Latin, Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Saxon, and Old French. Boundaries between disciplines (natural philosophy and medicine), body and soul, and bodies and texts are investigated. The session also considers how manuscript evidence encourages an individually nuanced approach to disease and disability in the Middle Ages. Session1220TitleThe Body and the Text: Medical Humanities and Medieval Literature, c. 1150-1550, IIIDate/TimeWednesday 3 July 2019: 14.15-15.45 SponsorCentre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University / Medical Humanities Research Centre (MHRC), Swansea University OrganiserLaura Kalas Williams, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Alison Williams, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Moderator/ChairTheresa Lorraine Tyers, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Paper 1220-a'Rede hit sofft': Durative Healthcare in the Life and Poetry of John Audelay(Language: English) Chelsea Silva, Department of English, University of California, Riverside Index Terms: Language and Literature - Middle English; MedicinePaper 1220-bLosing the Will to Live?: Medical Prognosis and Pastoral Care in the Later Middle Ages(Language: English) Joanne Edge, John Rylands Library, University of Manchester Index Terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography; MedicinePaper 1220-cMystical and Medical Death in The Book of Margery Kempe(Language: English) Laura Kalas Williams, Centre for Medieval &#38; Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University Index Terms: Language and Literature - Middle English; Medicine AbstractThis panel is one in a series of sessions which seeks to investigate how medicine, health and wellbeing are represented in medieval literature, and how literary texts from this period contribute to training and practice in the Medical Humanities. This panel considers the boundary between life and death, the experience of sickness as spiritually-edifying, and the role of religious or monastic healthcare in the Middle Ages. Focusing on medieval medical prognostics, 'regimens for sin', and the desirability of the liminal state of mystical death, the session investigates the interaction of medicine and religion, challenging the very definition of 'health'. Thursday Session1510TitleFertility and Infertility, I: Writing about InfertilityDate/TimeThursday 4 July 2019: 09.00-10.30 SponsorCentre for Medieval Studies, University of Exeter OrganiserCatherine Rider, Department of History, University of Exeter Moderator/ChairJoanne Edge, John Rylands Library, University of Manchester Paper 1510-a'For both were old and Sarah's periods had ceased': Medieval Theologians and Infertile Bodies(Language: English) Catherine Rider, Department of History, University of Exeter Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Medicine; Religious Life; Women's StudiesPaper 1510-b'For Women who cannot have their Flowers': Menstruation and Fertility Recipes in Early Modern Europe(Language: English) Julia Martins, Department of History, King's College London Index Terms: Medicine; Sexuality; Women's StudiesPaper 1510-cUroscopy and the Conceiving Body(Language: English) Isabel Davis, Department of English &#38; Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London Index Terms: Medicine; Sexuality; Women's Studies AbstractThe history of infertility is a growing area of study, for the Middle Ages and for other periods. Recent work has examined medical and (less often) religious views of infertility, as well as the experiences of those seeking to conceive. This is one of two sessions that bring together medievalists working on these topics from a range of perspectives. This session looks at medical and religious writing on infertility, in order to uncover learned writers' views of the subject and their relationship to practice. The second session looks at some of the best documented cases of infertility, among medieval kings and queens. Session1515TitleMaterial Presence, Power, and Pain: Bodies in TransitionDate/TimeThursday 4 July 2019: 09.00-10.30 SponsorHistorisches Seminar, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel OrganiserStephan Bruhn, Historisches Seminar/Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel Bianca Frohne, Historisches Seminar, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel Moderator/ChairCatrien Santing, Afdeling Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Paper 1515-aThe Materialisation of Relatives in High Medieval Frankish Nobility: From Written Words to Graphic Representation(Language: English) Janina Lillge, Historisches Seminar, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel Index Terms: Genealogy and Prosopography; Historiography - Medieval; Social HistoryPaper 1515-bTranscending Boundaries: Pain as Material Presence in Early Medieval Hagiography(Language: English) Bianca Frohne, Historisches Seminar, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel Index Terms: Hagiography; Medicine; MentalitiesPaper 1515-cDie Another Day?: The Ruler's Body in Situations of Conquest - Anglo-Norman and Late Byzantine Literature in Comparison(Language: English) Stephan Bruhn, Historisches Seminar/Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel Rike Szill, Historisches Seminar - Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Historiography - Medieval; Rhetoric AbstractThe session focuses, in a comparative perspective, on texts and cultural practices that call attention specifically to the materiality of the human body in a moment of transition. It brings together doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from Kiel University who are interested in the question of how corporeality can become a central focus within the source material they study. Each paper examines specific instances of such a materialisation, and asks what purpose they serve with regard to memorial practices, power relations, and the symbolism of suffering, death, restoration and regeneration. The session is co-organised by Bianca Frohne and Stephan Bruhn. Session1525TitleMental and Material: Building World(s) in the Medieval North, I - Worlds of LiteratureDate/TimeThursday 4 July 2019: 09.00-10.30 OrganiserRebecca Merkelbach, Deutsches Seminar / Skandinavistik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen Moderator/ChairRachel Evans, Department of English, University of Leicester Paper 1525-aTales from the Perilous Realm?: Exploring the World(s) of the 'Post-Classical' Sagas of Icelanders(Language: English) Rebecca Merkelbach, Deutsches Seminar / Skandinavistik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen Index Terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian; MentalitiesPaper 1525-bThe Mental and the Mound: The Narrative Role of Imagined Burial Mounds in the Post-Classical Íslendingasögur(Language: English) Basil Price, Department of English, Arizona State University Index Terms: Anthropology; Language and Literature - ScandinavianPaper 1525-cOld Age as Disability in Old Norse Sagas?(Language: English) Anna Katharina Heiniger, Faculty of Icelandic &#38; Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík Index Terms: Daily Life; Language and Literature - Scandinavian AbstractThe concept of worldbuilding, and the related idea of story-worlds - originally derived from the creation and study of the imaginary worlds of fantasy literature - have been influential tools in the analysis of narrative worlds across literatures. This series of sessions aims to apply these tools to the worlds of the medieval north. Employing an interdisciplinary focus that includes but ultimately goes beyond narrative worlds, they investigate how medieval Scandinavian worlds were built in history, archaeology, and material culture. This first session introduces the concept of worldbuilding and explores different aspects of the way it can be applied to the Íslendingasögur by focusing on non-canonical texts and new theoretical approaches. Session1610TitleFertility and Infertility, II: Royal Infertility and ChildlessnessDate/TimeThursday 4 July 2019: 11.15-12.45 SponsorCentre for Medieval Studies, University of Exeter OrganiserCatherine Rider, Department of History, University of Exeter Moderator/ChairCatherine Rider, Department of History, University of Exeter Paper 1610-aChildlessness: Failure or Virtue - The Case of Count Charles 'the Good' of Flanders(Language: English) Martina Häcker, Seminar für Anglistik, Universität Siegen Index Terms: Gender Studies; Historiography - Medieval; SexualityPaper 1610-bDevotion of a Childless King: Royal Infertility and Religious Patronage in 13th- to 14th-Century Scotland(Language: English) Emma Trivett, School of History, Classics &#38; Archaeology, University of Edinburgh Index Terms: Lay Piety; Religious Life; Sexuality; Women's StudiesPaper 1610-cTrue Men and Women?: Infertility and Gender Identity of Late Medieval English Monarchs(Language: English) Kristen Geaman, Department of History, University of Toledo, Ohio Index Terms: Gender Studies; Lay Piety; Sexuality; Women's Studies AbstractThe history of infertility is a growing area of study, for the Middle Ages and for other periods. Recent work has examined medical and (less often) religious views of infertility, as well as the experiences of those seeking to conceive. This is the second of two sessions that bring together medievalists working on these topics from a range of perspectives. The first session looks at medical and religious writing on infertility, in order to uncover learned writers' views of the subject and their relationship to practice. This second session looks at some of the best documented cases of infertility, among medieval kings and queens. Session1625TitleMental and Material: Building World(s) in the Medieval North, II - Worlds of HistoryDate/TimeThursday 4 July 2019: 11.15-12.45 OrganiserRebecca Merkelbach, Deutsches Seminar / Skandinavistik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen Moderator/ChairRebecca Merkelbach, Deutsches Seminar / Skandinavistik, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen Paper 1625-aCreating the Court in Skáldatal: The Skalds, Their Poetry, and the World of Scandinavian Kings(Language: English) Anna Solovyeva, Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur, Aarhus Universitet Index Terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian; Literacy and Orality; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Politics and DiplomacyPaper 1625-bConstructing Settlements: Social Network Analysis and Landnámabók(Language: English) Cassidy Croci, School of English, University of Nottingham Index Terms: Geography and Settlement Studies; Language and Literature - ScandinavianPaper 1625-cMapping Medical Knowledge in Medieval Scandinavia(Language: English) Sarah Baccianti, School of Arts, English &#38; Languages, Queen's University Belfast Index Terms: Education; Language and Literature - Scandinavian; Medicine; Science AbstractThe concept of worldbuilding, and the related idea of story-worlds - originally derived from the creation and study of the imaginary worlds of fantasy literature - have been influential tools in the analysis of narrative worlds across literatures. This series of sessions aims to apply these tools to the worlds of the medieval north. Employing an interdisciplinary focus that includes but ultimately goes beyond narrative worlds, they investigate how medieval Scandinavian worlds were built in history, archaeology and material culture. This second session explores the way the historical worlds of the medieval North are constructed through interaction, examining poetry and the manuscript that preserve it, social networks in settlement narratives, and cultural contacts that shape medical knowledge. Session1708TitleOnly Time Will Tell?: On Prognostic Thinking in Early Medieval LifeDate/TimeThursday 4 July 2019: 14.15-15.45 OrganiserRia Paroubek-Groenewoud, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht Moderator/ChairJoanne Edge, John Rylands Library, University of Manchester Paper 1708-aThinking Inside the Box?: The Problem of Genre and Prognostic Texts in 8th- and 9th-Century Manuscripts(Language: English) Annemarie Veenstra, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Historiography - Modern Scholarship; SciencePaper 1708-bA Dark Cloud on the Horizon: On Brontologies, Brontological Thinking, and Thunder as a Predictive Force in the Early Medieval Mind(Language: English) Bram van den Berg, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Historiography - MedievalPaper 1708-cLuna VIII: A Medicus curabitur - Prognostic Texts as an Aid for the Medieval Medic(Language: English) Ria Paroubek-Groenewoud, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Medicine AbstractWhat day of the moon is a good day to let blood? What does it mean if you hear thunder on a Tuesday? Do you want to know if your Monday is cursed? Texts that offer this kind of information are known as prognostics. Recent scholarship has stepped away from the notion that these texts are pagan. However, they are often still approached as a clear and defined body of texts; but are they really? This session will break away from this tendency by looking at how prognostic texts, found in manuscripts from the 8th-11th century, function within different intellectual contexts.