Eva-Maria Cersovsky and Ursula Gießmann (Univ. of Cologne), in cooperation with the Competence Area IV „Cultures and Societies in Transition“ (Univ. of Cologne), the Cologne Centre for Medieval Studies, and the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne
Venue: Cologne
Time: 25.-26.01.2018
Registration due 19.01.2018
Gender-specific characteristics and challenges within medicine and public health play an increasingly important role in current medical research as well as politics. Incorporating gender into the historical analysis of the Late Middle Ages, too, reveals its importance in organising and practising health care, interpreting the diseased, disabled or infertile body as well as producing, applying and transmitting medical knowledge. Recently, Anglo-American historians, in particular, have highlighted the complex and ambiguous ways in which gender shaped late medieval medical discourses and practices, functioning both as a factor of exclusion as well as inclusion.
The workshop aims at systematically exploring these manifold relations between gender, health and healing during the 13th to 16th centuries, situating them at the nexus of medical, social, cultural, religious and economic concerns. Speakers focus on areas of the field which require additional and more comprehensive attention, e.g. the household as a gendered site of giving and receiving care but also of producing medicine, the healing and caring practices of religious women, the role of miscellanies or print in disseminating gendered medical and bodily knowledge as well as … read more, programme and source (Web).