27-29 June 2012
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
09.00-10.00 Registration in front of Room 1129, Anthropole Building
10.00-10.15 Welcome, Room 1129
10.15-11.15 Plenary lecture 1, Room 1129
Heinrich von Staden (Princeton University):
Writing Science in Antiquity: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder and Galen
11.30-13.00 Parallel sessions 1
A. MONSTROUS BIRTHS
1. Emma Depledge (University of Geneva): ‘A Nest of Nunnes Egges, Strangely Hatched’: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Female Transgression in Anti-Catholic Propaganda of the Late 1670s and Early 1680s
2. Lucy Perry (University of Geneva): ‘ffendes-in-bedde, as our bokes sayn’ (Robert Mannyng’s Chronicle): Demonic Discourse, Demonic Intercourse, and the Birth of Merlin.
3. Erzsi Kukorelly(University of Geneva): Breeding Like Rabbits: Monstrous Generation and the Proliferation of Popular Print in Early Eighteenth-Century England
B. THE RUPTURED SKIN
1. Katrin Rupp (University of Neuchâtel): (Un)Healthy Appetite: Medicinal Cannibalism in Richard Coeur de Lion
2. Joanne Winning (Birbeck, University of London): The Meaning of Skin and Surgical Subjectivity
3. Ying-Chiao Lin (National Taiwan Normal University): ‘every noise appals me’: Macbeth’s Plagued Ear
C. PHYSIC AND PSYCHE
1. Juliette Vuille (University of Lausanne): ‘Witte it welle, it was na ravinge that thowe sawe today’: Diagnosis and Contextualization of Medieval Female Mystics
2. Lisanna Calvi (University of Verona): ‘Is’t Lunacy to call a Spade a Spade?’: James Carkesse and the Forgotten Language of Madness
3. Cinta Zunino-Garrido (University of Jaen): Physic and Psyche on the Early Modern English Stage
13.00-14.30 Lunch break and/or registration
14.30-16.00 Parallel sessions 2
A. STAGING CHILDBIRTH AND SICKNESS
1. Tamás Karáth (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest): Staging Childbirth: Medical and Popular Discourses of Parturition and Midwifery in the English Mystery Cycle Plays
2. Marie-Christine Munoz (University of Montpellier): Webster’s Desiring Women in The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi or the Representation of Erotic Passions According to Jacques Ferrand’s Treatise about De la maladie d’amour ou mélancolie érotique, (Toulouse, 1610)
3. John McGee (University of Geneva): Lovesickness in Romeo and Juliet
B. ‘EVEN SO QUICKLY MAY ONE CATCH THE PLAGUE?’
1. Paola Baseotto (University of Insubria, Como): Religion and Medicine: Plague Writings by Elizabethan and Early Stuart Churchmen
2. Julia D. Staykova (independent scholar): The Discourse of Disease in the Anti-Theatrical Pamphlets, 1570s-1630s
3. Tommi Kakko (University of Tampere): Galenic and Empiricist Medicine in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year
C. OPTICS
1-2. Annette Kern-Stähler (University of Bern) and Beatrix Busse (University of Heidelberg): Late Medieval Concepts of Vision and Blindness and the Circulation of Knowledge
3. Anne-Valérie Dulac (Paris Est Créteil University): London and Baghdad: Sir Philip Sidney’s Ornaments Viewed from the History of Optics
16.00- 16.30 Coffee break
16.30-18.00 Parallel sessions 3
A. MAGICKING HEALTH AND SICKNESS
1. Susan Zavoti (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest): Blame it on the Elves – Perception of Sickness in Anglo-Saxon England
2. Milagros Torrado-Cespón (University of Santiago de Compostela): Some Notes about the Evil Eye Tradition and Witchcraft in England during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
3. Roberta Mullini (University of Urbino): Killing the Worms: Charms, Wise Women, and Popular Medicine between Thersites (1537?) and Seventeenth-Century Quackery
B. ACCESSING MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
1. Clarissa Chenovick (Fordham University, New York): ‘Malveis coer’ and ‘malveis char’: Meditation as Surgery in the Livre de Seyntz Medicines
2. A. Gwyndaf Garbutt (University of Toronto): Evidence and the Exotic: Exploring Evidence Use in the Defective Version of The Book of John Mandeville
3. Helen Smith (University of York): ‘A medicine for the scorpion’s sting’: Divinity and Physic in Early Modern England
C. THEORIES OF THE SENSES
1. Marsha L. Dutton (Ohio University): Love’s Mirrors: Questions of Ocular Science in Guillaume de Lorris’s Roman de la Rose
2. Claire Bardelmann (University of Metz): ‘Had I no eyes but ears’: Early Modern Theories of Perception and the Rhetoric of the Senses in Venus and Adonis
18.15-19.15 Plenary lecture 2, Room 1129
Eric Masserey (Lausanne) and Vincent Barras (University of Lausanne):
Reality or Fiction? Itineraries in Medicine and Literature, with Reference to Eric Masserey’s Le Retour aux Indes and other Texts: a dialogue
19.15-21.30 Conference reception in the main hall, in front of room 1129
Thursday, 28 June 2012
09.15-10.00 SAMEMES AGM
10.30-12.00 Parallel sessions 4
A. STAGING SICKNESS (II)
1. Estella Antoaneta Ciobanu (Ovidius University, Constanța): The Anatomical Imaginary of Middle English Religious Theatre: Jesus’ Body in Parts in the York Plays
2. Hanako Endo (Jissen Women’s University, Hino): Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet
3. Beatrice Montedoro (University of Geneva): Words as Sickness – the Dramatization of Bewitchment in Middleton’s The Witch (c. 1613-16) and Dekker’s The Witch of Edmonton (1621?)
B. SPIRITUAL DISEASE AND HEALING
1. Christiania Whitehead (University of Warwick): Spiritual Healing: Healing Miracles Associated with the Twelfth-Century Northern Cult of St Cuthbert
2. Virginia Langum (University of Umeå): Medicine and Sin in Gower
3. Eleonora Oggiano (University of Verona): Here’s a med’cine, for the nones: Practicing the Art of Healing in Jacobean England
C. GENDERED HEALING
1. Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa (Shizuoka University): Post-mortem Care of the Soul: Mechtild of Hackeborn’s the Booke of Gostlye Grace
2. Lyn Bennett (Dalhousie University, Halifax): Women Writers and the 17th-Century Rhetoric of Healing
3. Agnieszka Szwach (Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce): ‘Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie’: The Representation of a Female Healer in Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well
12.00-12.30 Lunch break
12.30-19.00 Social programme
Friday, 29 June 2012
09.30-10.30 Plenary lecture 3, Room 1129
Margaret Healy (University of Sussex):
Paracelsian Medicine and Female Creativity: Distilling Medicines and Healing Poetry
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.30 Parallel sessions 5
A. THE INFORMED READER: TEXTS, BODIES AND AUDIENCES IN THE MIDDLE AGES
1. Anke Timmerman (Medical University of Vienna): When Medicine Met Alchemy: Viennese Alchemica and their Readers
2. Katie L. Walter (University of Bochum): Digby MS 233: Medicine and the Chivalric Reader
3. Mary C. Flannery (University of London): Emotion, Exposure, and the Ideal Reader in Middle English Gynaecological Texts
B. ARTS OF HEALING
1. Liz Herbert McAvoy (Swansea University): Bathing in Blood: The Medicinal Cures of Anchoritic Devotion
2. Indira Ghose (University of Fribourg): The Paradox of Laughter in the Early Modern Period
3. Sabine Kalff (Freie Universität Berlin): The Art of Anti-Aging – Health Preservation in Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis
C. TIME AND SPACE
1. Stefania D’Agata D’Otavi (Università per Stranieri, Siena): Between Astronomy and Astrology: Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe and the Measurement of Time in Late-Medieval England
2. Tamsin Theresa Badcoe (University of East Anglia): Mariners, Maps and Metaphors: Lucas Waghenaer and the Poetics of Space
3. Louise Noble (University of New England, Armidale): ‘Let others tell the Paradox’: Andrew Marvell and Early Modern Hydrological Science
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.00 Plenary lecture 4, Room 1129
Jennifer Richards (Newcastle University):
Diagnosing the body politic in William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part Two
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-17.00 Parallel sessions 6
A. TEXTS AND BODIES OF MSS.
1. Peter Bovenmeyer (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Configuring Surgery, Sanctity, and Salvation: A Reassessment of the Imagery in Roger Frugard’s Chirurgia (BL MS Sloane 1977)
2. Alessandra Petrina (Università degli Studi, Padua): British Library, MS Additional 60577: A Scientific and Didactic Collection
3. Patricia Ronan (University of Lausanne): John of Gaddesden’s Rosa Anglica and its Translation into Irish
B. RHETORIC AND THE BODY
1. David Thorley (Durham University, New York): Milton’s Letter to Philaras: The Patient as Prophet
2. Roy Sellars (University of St Gallen): Not Uninvented
3. Isabel Karremann (University of Munich): Lethargy in Early Modern Medical Discourse and Shakespearian Drama
C. NARRATING HEALTH AND DISEASE
1. Edith Snook (University of New Brunswick): ‘Read(ing) of the vertue of those hearbs and flowres which I had wrought’: Elizabeth Isham, Needlework, and Medicine
2. Louise Wilson (University of St Andrews): Salutary Tales?: Reading, Health and Early Modern Romance’
3. Laetitia Sansonetti (Ecole Polytechnique, France): Syphilis or Melancholy? Desire as Disease in Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1590)
17.15-18.15 Plenary lecture 5, Room 1129
Anthony Hunt (University of Oxford): Anglo-Norman: The Missing Link?
19.30-23.30 Drinks followed by conference dinner