This interdisciplinary conference explores the reception and transmission of medical knowledge between and across England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and Scandinavia during the medieval period, and will draw on history, literature, philosophy, science, religion, art, archaeology and manuscript studies.\u00a0It will interrogate medical texts and ideas in both Latin and vernacular languages, addressing questions of translation, cultural and scientific inheritance and exchange, and historical conceptions of health and of the human being within nature.<\/p>\n
Confirmed speakers<\/strong>:\u00a0Dr Debby Banham (University of Cambridge); Prof. Guy Geltner (University of Amsterdam); Prof. Charlotte Roberts (Durham University)<\/p>\n Organising committee<\/strong>:\u00a0Dr Sarah Baccianti (Queen\u2019s University Belfast); Dr Siobh\u00e1n\u00a0Barrett, Dr Bernhard Bauer & Dr Deborah Hayden (Maynooth University)<\/p>\n Registration is open now. For registration and the programme, please check here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maynooth University, Ireland 19\u201321 March 2020 This interdisciplinary conference explores the reception and transmission of medical knowledge between and across England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and Scandinavia during the medieval period, and will draw on history, literature, philosophy, science, religion, art, … Continue reading