(Forwarded on behalf of the organiser; all queries please to Clare Pilsworth, clare.pilsworth (at) manchester.ac.uk .)
Theorica et practica: medical texts and practice in the earlier middle ages
University of Manchester
Saturday 10 March 2007
Location: Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, 2nd Floor Simon Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
Cost of registration: £10 including lunch. Please contact clare.pilsworth (at) manchester.ac.uk to register.
Programme:
10.30-11am
Coffee and Welcome
11-11.45am
"Old recipes, new practice? The Latin adaptations of the Hippocratic gynaecological treatises"
Laurence Totelin, University of Cambridge
11.45-12.30 "The origins of the lunatic asylum? The domus infirmorum in Gregory the Great's Dialogues"
Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway, University of London
12.30-1.15pm
"Where did everybody go? Finding doctors in the early medieval Italian charter evidence"
Clare Pilsworth, University of Manchester
1.15-2pm
Lunch
2-2.45pm
"Medical practice in Anglo-Saxon England"
Audrey Meaney
2.45-3.30pm
"A Millennium in Medicine? New texts in eleventh-century England"
Debby Banham, Birbeck College, London
3.30-3.50pm
Tea
3.50-4.30pm
"Medical magic and the Church in 13th century England"
Catherine Rider, University of Cambridge
4.30-5pm
Roundtable Discussion and Close
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