THURSDAY, 21 APRIL
NB All times are BST
9:30am - 9:55am Registration (in-person)
9:55am - 10am Opening Remarks
10am - 11:30am Session 1: Charmed
Chair: Katherine Beard
Grace Pyles, ‘The Medicinal Unicorn Horn in the European Middle Ages’
Emer Kavanagh, ‘Shape and Form: the Use of Sympathetic Magic in Irish Charming Tradition’
Radka Pallová, ‘Humane Treatment? Animal Bodies in Alexander of Tralles’
11:30am - 12 noon Break with refreshments
12 noon - 1:30pm Session 2: Call the Midwife
Chair: Diana Myers
Ailie Westbrook, ‘‘Mulieribus non est dicendum’: Mediated Knowledge in Women’s Health in Medieval Denmark’
Shir Blum, ‘Appositusque Iuvat Mulierem Parturientem: the Material Variety of Amulets as Obstetrical Aides’
Rachel Chenault, ‘Experiencing Childbirth: The Search for Female Voices, 1000-1200 C.E.’
1:30pm - 2:30pm Lunch
2:30pm - 3:30pm Session 3: The Seventh Seal
Chair: James Cogbill
Ben Hatchett, ‘‘A suitable medicine against all crimes’: John of Rupescissa’s Purgative Plague’
Stephen Pow, ‘Was Bubonic Plague behind the Epidemic that Affected the Mongol Army in China in 1259?’
3:30pm - 4pm Break with refreshments
4pm - 5pm Keynote Address 1
Dr Hannah Bower, ‘Locating Authority in Medieval Medical Writing: Playing with Presence and Absence’
5pm Drinks Reception
7pm Conference Dinner (optional)
FRIDAY, 22 APRIL
9:30am - 10:15am Medicine & Healing at Oxford: Manuscript & Social Session (with refreshments)
10:15am - 11:15am Session 4: Being Human
Chair: Caleb Prus
Melanie Socrates, ‘Impatient Medicine: Agency and Urgency in Middle English Medical Works’
S. Doğan Karakelle, ‘Knowing Horses and Thyself: Spiritual Healing and Rulership Practices in Ottoman-Turkish Veterinary Manuals 1400-1600’
11:15am - 11:45am Break with refreshments
11:45am - 1:15pm Session 5: Inside Out
Chair: Corinne Clark
Ruth Rimmer, ‘Healing Through Lists in Lacnunga’
Colette Sarjano Utama McDonald, ‘A Stitch Through Time: the Besloten Hofjes at Mechelen, Alberto Burri, and Judith Scott’
Madeleine Killacky, ‘Challenging the Monopoly of 16th-Century Anatomical Knowledge through Pop-up Paper Figures’
1:15pm - 2:15pm Lunch
2:15pm - 3:45pm Session 6: Sister Act
Chair: Eugenia Vorobeva
Magdalena Buszka, ‘Saint Barbara of Medieval French Mystery Plays - Healer of Bodies and Souls’
Hólmfríður Sveinsdóttir, ‘The Use of Lead Tablets and Anatomical Votives in Medieval Healing Practices: Case studies from the Museum of
Cultural History, University of Oslo’
3:45pm - 4:15pm Break with refreshments
4:15pm - 5:15pm Keynote Address 2
Professor Emilie Savage-Smith, ‘Modern Myths and Medieval Medicine’
5:15pm - 5:20pm Closing Remarks
