CONGRESS CANCELED Magic, Miracles, and Medicine: Borders of Healing in the Iberian Middle Ages
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In the Iberian Middle Ages, the limits between authorized and illicit healing were often subtle. Whether a cure was labeled as medicinal, miraculous, or magical could have deadly consequences for the patient as well as the practitioner. This panel aims to bring together scholars from a variety of subfields including social history, literature, religion, and the history of science/medicine. The importance of this session lies not only in ways that these distinctions were drawn in the Middle Ages, but also in the ways that modern criticism values or neglects these distinctions based on current views of healing. Matthew V. Desing
CONGRESS CANCELED Magic, Miracles, and Medicine: Borders of Healing in the Iberian Middle Ages
Sangren 1320
In the Iberian Middle Ages, the limits between authorized and illicit healing were often subtle. Whether a cure was labeled as medicinal, miraculous, or magical could have deadly consequences for the patient as well as the practitioner. This panel aims to bring together scholars from a variety of subfields including social history, literature, religion, and the history of science/medicine. The importance of this session lies not only in ways that these distinctions were drawn in the Middle Ages, but also in the ways that modern criticism values or neglects these distinctions based on current views of healing. Matthew V. Desing