PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
The Warburg Institute
COLLOQUIUM
Ritual Healing in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
17 and 18 February 2006
with the support of the Wellcome Trust
Venue:
THE WARBURG INSTITUTE
WOBURN SQUARE
LONDON WC1H OAB
Telephone: (020) 7862 8949
Fax: (020) 7862 8955
Admission free
Friday 17 February
9.45 Doors open
FIRST SESSION
Chair: Peter Pormann
Welcome
10.00 Stefan Maul (University of Heidelberg/ Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin)
Mesopotamian healing procedures which include both pharmacological and
magical
treatments.
10. 55. Árpád M. Nagy (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest)
Daktylios pharmakités. Graeco-Egyptian magical healing gems.
11.40 Coffee/Tea
12.00 Maria Elena Gorrini (Italy)
Non-Asclepian healing cults in Magna Graecia.
1.00 Lunch for invited guests.
SECOND SESSION
Chair: Evelyne Patlagean
2.00 Manfred Horstmannhoff (University of Leiden)
Asclepian healing in triple perspective: Doctor, patient and
illness.
2.45 Sarolta A. Takács (Rutgers University)
The cult of Isis: Interpretatio Romana
3.30 David Napier (UCL)
Empowering ritual objects (medical anthropology).
4. 15 Discussion
6.00 Reception
6.45 Supper for invited guests
Saturday 18 February
10.00 Doors open
THIRD SESSION
Chair: Emilie Savage-Smith
10.00 Remke Kruk (University of Leiden)
Islamic healing in the Netherlands.
10.45. Ildikó Csepregi-Vardabasso (CEU, Budapest)
The temple as hospital. Dream healing in Byzantium.
11.30 Coffee/Tea
11.50 Gábor Klaniczay (Collegium Budapest)
"Dream healing in Central European and Italian canonization documents
(thirteenth to fourteenth centuries)"
12.35 Discussion
1.00 Lunch for invited guests
FOURTH SESSION
Chair: Charles Burnett
2.00 Vivian Nutton, (Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL)
A Latin pseudo-history of medicine.
2.45 Catherine Rider (Peterhouse, Cambridge)
The Manual of doctor Bartholomaeus Carrichter on how to cure magically-
caused illnesses
3.30 Fernando Salmón (Santander)
The physician as cure in medical scholasticism
4.15 Tea/Coffee
4.35 Discussion
5.00 Conference closes
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