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Call for Papers for a Session on Medicine and Spirituality at the MedievalAcademy of America Annual Meeting, 2013University of Tennessee, April 4-6, 2013Organizers: Mary Dzon (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Irven Resnick (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga) and Winston Black (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)Recent studies have traced the many and complicated intersections of medicine and spirituality in the Middle Ages (e.g. those of C. W. Bynum, N. Caciola, K. Park, M. van der Lugt, P.L. Reynolds, and M. Green). This session invites further exploration of how medical learning and practice and religious beliefs and practice intersected, the one discourse supporting, redefining, or challenging the other. These intersections are revealed in spiritual interpretations of disease (leprosy, plague, insanity) and medical interpretations of religious figures and phenomena (e.g. healing relics and saints, stigmata, visions, Arma Christi, and the Immaculate Conception). Tensions and compatibilities between medicine and spirituality are likewise revealed in the relations between medical practitioners and church authorities, medical practice and religious orders, popular healers and university culture, and heresy or religious difference and disease. Certain later medieval literary genres also bear witness to the influence of scholastic medicine on theology and the reverse, such as devotional literature, pastoralia, confessional manuals, and canonization records.The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2012. Please send your abstract of 250 words, along with a cover sheet (described at http://www.medievalacademy.org/pdf/CFP2013.pdf) to Jay Rubenstein, preferably by e-mail to jrubens1@utk.edu, or two copies by mail to: Jay Rubenstein, University of Tennessee, Department of History, 6th Floor,Dunford Hall, Knoxville, TN, 37996.