Health and Healing in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe; Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages

Organizer Name

Michelle Ziegler

Organizer Affiliation

St. Louis Univ.

Presider Name

Deanna Forsman

Presider Affiliation

North Hennepin Community College

Paper Title 1

Famine and Pestilence in the Irish Sea Region, 500-800 AD

Presenter 1 Name

Michelle Ziegler

Paper Title 2

Regional Patterns of Health in Early Medieval Ireland: Distributions of Non-specific Stress Indicators

Presenter 2 Name

Mara Tesorieri

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. College Cork

Paper Title 3

The Experience and Practice of Medicine by the Laity in Anglo-Saxon England

Presenter 3 Name

Julia Bolotina

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Cambridge

Paper Title 4

By Rome, or By Spain? Possible Mediterranean Origins of Irish Holy Well Veneration

Presenter 4 Name

Silas J. Mallery

Presenter 4 Affiliation

North Hennepin Community College

Start Date

11-5-2012 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1255