"Get Ye Flask": Friars and Uroscopy in Medieval England
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Sarah Star
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Toronto
Presider Name
Sarah Star
Paper Title 1
Uroscopy as Encyclopedia: A Case Study of Friar Daniel (OP) and Friar Narborough (OFM)
Presenter 1 Name
M. Teresa Tavormina
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Michigan State Univ.
Paper Title 2
Mendicant Medics: When Friars Treated in the Middle Ages
Presenter 2 Name
Elise Williams
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Toronto
Start Date
15-5-2016 10:30 AM
Session Location
Fetzer 2030
Description
Uroscopy was the primary means of diagnosing illness in the late Middle Ages, and was for that reason a type of knowledge that circulated widely, at all levels of expertise. Despite its necessity to and influence on medieval medical practice, English uroscopy is still very much understudied in medieval scholarship.
This panel showcases the scholarship being undertaken in this burgeoning field. Papers given here should be of interest to scholars of medical history, intellectual history, the history of the English language, vernacularization, and text editing.
Sarah Star
"Get Ye Flask": Friars and Uroscopy in Medieval England
Fetzer 2030
Uroscopy was the primary means of diagnosing illness in the late Middle Ages, and was for that reason a type of knowledge that circulated widely, at all levels of expertise. Despite its necessity to and influence on medieval medical practice, English uroscopy is still very much understudied in medieval scholarship.
This panel showcases the scholarship being undertaken in this burgeoning field. Papers given here should be of interest to scholars of medical history, intellectual history, the history of the English language, vernacularization, and text editing.
Sarah Star