Gower and Medicine

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Gower Project

Organizer Name

Eve Salisbury

Organizer Affiliation

Western Michigan Univ.

Presider Name

Georgiana Donavin

Presider Affiliation

Westminster College

Paper Title 1

Unconfessing Gender: The Medicalization of Sin in Gower's Confessio amantis

Presenter 1 Name

M. W. Bychowski

Presenter 1 Affiliation

George Washington Univ.

Paper Title 2

Broken Mirroring and Traumatic Recollection in the Confessio amantis

Presenter 2 Name

Jenny Boyar

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Rochester

Paper Title 3

A Medical "Middel Weie": Cerymon's Interactive Healing in the Confessio amantis

Presenter 3 Name

Sarah Gillette

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Western Michigan Univ.

Paper Title 4

"So schalt thou double hele finde": Narrative Medicine in Gower's Confessio amantis

Presenter 4 Name

Pamela M. Yee

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Rochester

Start Date

16-5-2015 3:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 2016

Description

This session addresses Gower's deployment of metaphors of illness and healing, blindness, auditory impairment, diseases of the mouth, heart, brain, traumatic injuries, and the effects of pain on the human body as well as the body of poetry that speaks on its behalf.

Eve Salisbury