Generation and Reproduction in Medieval Europe
Places at the symposium will be limited to 30 plus speakers.
Cost per person will be £20, including lunch, coffee and tea.
Please apply as soon as possible to reserve a place to Peter Jones (pmj10@cam.ac.uk).
Friday 7 December
| 17.30 | Open lecture, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, Cambridge: Marianne Elsakkers (Utrecht), 'What the small print in the early medieval penitentials tells us about abortion'. Registration not required. |
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Saturday 8 December
| 9.30–10.00 | Registration, Saltmarsh Rooms, King's College, Cambridge |
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| 10.00–11.20 | Session 1: |
| Fabiola van Dam (Utrecht), 'Generation, reproduction and a body-that-cooks: visualizing medieval concepts of natural change in the Regimen Sanitatis (1333–1335) of Magninus Mediolanensis' | |
| Gabriella Zuccolin (Open University), 'Physiognomic and medical discourse in the light of practice: noble women's generative issues in 15th century Northern Italian courts' | |
| 11.20–11.40 | Coffee |
| 11.40–13.00 | Session 2: |
| Na'ama Cohen-Hanegbi (Tel Aviv and Wolfson College, Oxford), 'Postpartum emotional distress in medical, literary and religious texts, 13th to 15th centuries' | |
| Wendy Turner (Augusta, GA), 'Strains on the mental health of mothers in medieval England' | |
| 13.00–14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00–15.20 | Session 3: |
| Catherine Rider (Exeter), 'Medical responses to infertility in medieval England' | |
| Sue Edgington (Queen Mary, London), 'Arrangements for lying-in and wet-nursing in the Hospital of St John, Jerusalem, c.1180' | |
| 15.20–15.40 | Tea |
| 15.40–17.00 | Session 4: |
| Rebecca Johnson (Princeton), 'Death in birth: reality and representation in the later medieval Mediterranean' | |
| Irina Metzler (Swansea, Bremen), 'Congenital disability – medieval causalities of birth defects' | |
| 17.00–17.30 | Discussion |