Medicine and Magic II

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Albrecht Classen

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Arizona

Presider Name

Albrecht Classen

Paper Title 1

"For to Have Borne a Child by Her Lord:” Eleanor Cobham, Infertility, and Witchcraft

Presenter 1 Name

Kristen Geaman

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Toledo

Paper Title 2

The Savoy Hospital and Changing Methods of Medical Care in Early Sixteenth-Century England

Presenter 2 Name

Charlotte A. Stanford

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Brigham Young Univ.

Paper Title 3

See (No) Evil, Speak (No) Evil: The (Non)Physicality of Late Medieval and Puritan Magical Healers and Wrongdoers

Presenter 3 Name

Joanna Ludwikowska

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria Univ. in the Univ. of Toronto

Start Date

15-5-2015 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1325

Description

This session on Medicine and Magic II continues with our exploration of the intimate relationship between both areas, focusing on the late Middle Ages and the early modern age. Again, we will examine how much magic influenced medicine and how much modern medicine had an impact on the world of magic. We hope that the insights gained here will allow us to draw meaningful connection between the premodern and the modern world in which medicine is currently undergoing dramatic transformations.

Albrecht Classen