Submitted by Harold J. Cook,
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Historicising Disability: The Middle Ages and After
A One–Day
Symposium at the Centre for Medieval Studies,
Huntington Room,
The Kings’ Manor, York YO1 7EP
On Saturday 2nd December 2006
10.30 am:
Coffee and Registration
11am- 12.30 pm: Session One
Welcome: Prof. Linne Mooney, Director, CMS Dr Irina Metzler (Bristol): “Thinking about Physical Impairment during the High Middle Ages, c. 1100-1400”
Prof. Edward Wheatley (Loyola
University, Chicago): “Stumbling Blocks
Before the Blind: Constructions of a Disability in Medieval England and France”
12.30-1.45pm:
Lunch
1.45
pm-3.45pm: Session Two
Dr
Sally Crawford (Birmingham): “Perceptions of the Disabled Body in the
Anglo-Saxon Burial Ritual”
Dr Santha Bhattacharji
(Oxford): “Disability and the Conferral of Saintly Identity: the Case of
Richard Rolle”
Prof. Christopher Baswell (UCLA
and York): “Troilus’s Crutch”
Peregrine Horden (Royal
Holloway College, U London) and Dr. Caroline Bowden (Royal Holloway College, U
London): “Robert Cecil
goes to Bath: Wealth and Immobility in Jacobean England”
3.45pm-4.15pm:
Tea
4.15pm-5pm:
Resources and responses: open discussion
Agreed
contributions from Dr Philippa Hoskins (Archives and History,
Borthwick Institute); Dr Chris Philo (Cultural Geography, Glasgow); Dr. Mark
Jenner (History,York); Professor Edward Wheatley (English, Loyola University,
Chicago).
5pm Close
REGISTRATION
Registration for
the day costs £12.00 for staff and £9.00 for students (includes tea, coffee and
buffet lunch). If you wish to
attend, please send your name and your registration fee (sterling cheque to
University of York: regret credit cards not possible), and the form below, to
the Centre Administrator, Mrs.Louise Harrison ([log in to unmask]),
Centre for Medieval Studies, King’s Manor, York YO1 7EP
by Monday
27th November
2006. On
York and CMS see http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cms
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