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From: rholod@sas.upenn.edu
List Editor: Stephennie Mulder <smulder@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU>
Editor's Subject: H-ISLAMART: CFP Kalamazoo 2011: The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing
Author's Subject: H-ISLAMART: CFP Kalamazoo 2011: The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing
Date Written: August 14, 2010
Date Posted: Tue, 16 Aug 2010 17:03:21 -0400

> Call for Papers: The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing:
> Sessions I-VI
>
> International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May
> 12-15, 2011
>
> An exciting suite of six sessions under the umbrella theme The
> Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing will be presented at the
> 2011 Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo.  The four societies sponsoring
> these sessions -- Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in
> the Middle Ages, AVISTA: The Association Villard de Honnecourt for
> the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and
> Art, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML), and Societas Magica
> -- invite submissions that focus on sites, images, objects, and
> texts to explore the multivalent practices and meanings of healing
> in all its forms.  A wide range of approaches is encouraged.
>
> 1. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing I: Sites and Images
>
> 2. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing II: Objects and
> Instruments (co-sponsors AVISTA and Medica)
>
>             Sessions I and II will focus on the art, architecture,
> and technologies of healing in the Middle Ages.
>
>             Contact:  Barbara Bowers (AVISTA,
bowers.41@buckeyemail.osu.edu
> )
>
> 3. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing III: Texts
> 4. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing IV: Texts (co-
> sponsors Medica and AVISTA)
>
>             Sessions III and IV will explore the different textual
> traditions in which medieval authors considered matters of health
> and healing.  For example, papers might examine texts produced by
> and for scholastic physicians or laymen, questions about Latin and
> vernacular medical textual traditions, specific issues addressed in
> medical texts, such as theology, animal husbandry, etc., or the ways
> other literary genres draw upon or treat medical subjects.
>
>             Contact: Linda Migl Keyser (Medica,
> keyserl@georgetown.edu)
>
>  5. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing V: Texts (co-
> sponsors HMML and Medica)
>             Session V will focus on texts as a partial purveyor of
> healing knowledge to go along with architectural setting, art image,
> and artifact.  Papers will discuss specific manuscripts, collections
> of healing prayers, recipes, and explore the healing properties of
> manuscripts as objects.
>
>             Contact:  Theresa Vann (HMML, tvann@csbsju.edu)
>
>  6. The Sacred and the Secular in Medieval Healing VI: Texts: Re-
> Siting (co-sponsors Societas Magica and Medica)
>             Session VI expands textual traditions to include
> additional sites, such as the body as text.
>
>             Contact:  Marla Segol (Societas Magica, msegol@skidmore.edu
> )
>
>
> Please send proposals for papers (abstracts of no more than 300
> words) and a completed Participant Information Form by e-mail to the
> contact person for that session by 15 September 2010.
>
> If you have any questions or would like more information, please
> contact either Linda Keyser (keyserl@georgetown.edu) or Barbara
> Bowers (bowers.41@buckeyemail.osu.edu).
>

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