Pour le salut de mon âme

“For the Salvation of my Soulˮ: Women and Wills in Medieval and Early Modern France  

edited by Joëlle Rollo-Koster and Kathryn L. Reyerson

St Andrews, 2012
ISBN 978-1-907548-08-6 [paperback]
ISBN 978-1-907548-09-3 [e-book])

This volume seeks to investigate the testamentary practices of women in medieval and early modern France, examining the experience of a cross-section of the population, from artisans to the elite, in Aix-en-Provence, Avignon, Marseille, Montpellier, La Rochelle, Brittany, and Burgundy. The making of a will was perhaps the single most prominent moment in women’s lives for the assertion of agency. Though constrained to some degree by customary practice and the increasing influence of Roman law, women demonstrated remarkable initiative in the formulation of their last wishes. Wills permitted women to reward friendship and loyalty, to designate universal heirs as major beneficiaries, to stipulate conditions of inheritance so that last wishes were carried out, and, perhaps most importantly, to make pious donations to the Church for the salvation of the testators’ souls. They chose their burial sites and arranged for funeral processions, and they endowed anniversary masses for their souls in perpetuity. Individual testamentary decisions differed, as did spousal strategies, but the reinforcement of family ties, even the assertion of relationship, was possible in wills.

Table of Contents:
 Joëlle Rollo-Koster and Kathryn L. Reyerson, "Introduction"
 Joëlle Rollo-Koster, "Item Logo... Item Volo... Is there really an 'I' in Medieval Provençales’ Wills?"
 Francine Michaud, "Family Emotional Outlets? Women’s Wills, Women’s Voices in Medieval Marseille"
 Kathryn L. Reyerson, "Wills of Spouses in Montpellier before 1350: a Case Study of Gender in Testamentary Practice"
 Kathleen Ashley, "Scripts for Funeral Theater: Burgundian Testaments and the Performance of Social Identities"
 Nancy Locklin, "Women and Gift-Giving in Eighteenth-Century Brittany: Wills and Donations"
 Jennifer L. Palmer, "Writing Wills and Families: Constructing Mixed-Race Families in Eighteenth-Century France"
 Bibliography



Published paperback copies will shortly be available in leading world libraries, and may be obtained through on-demand print from the Centre.

E-book files may be consulted and downloaded through the webpage of the Centre for French History and Culture and through the Digital Research Repository of the University of St Andrews.
http://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/3052

The titles in this series are FREE, and libraries are warmly invited to establish an e-book link in their catalogue systems to this series.

Migration et système de santé vaudois

Taline Garibian & Vincent Barras

Migration et système de santé vaudois

du 19e siècle à nos jours

XVI et 72 pages
[ISBN 978-2-9700640-4-6]
CHF 30.- / € 29

Dans l’histoire sanitaire et médicale de ces cent vingt-cinq dernières années, la question de la migration concerne tout d’abord les médecins étrangers venus se former ou trouver refuge en Suisse, puis les maladies dont on craignait qu’elles ne mettent en péril l’état sanitaire des populations autochtones, enfin les immigrés et les réfugiés. Ces trois moments, conjugués sous la catégorie de l’Autre, se révèlent aujourd’hui fondamentaux pour la médecine contemporaine, reliant les trois éléments du triangle soignant-patient-maladie : l’Autre, source non seulement d’inquiétudes sanitaires et de mesures préventives, mais aussi, et surtout, de richesse culturelle et de réflexion formatrice.

Vous pouvez commander ce volume:

- en ligne: http://www.chuv.ch/iuhmsp/formulaire_commande_bhms.html

- au moyen du bon de commande téléchargeable directement: cliquer ici

- par courriel: bhms@chuv.ch dans lequel vous préciserez votre adresse postale;
- par téléphone: +41-21-314 70 50
- par fax: +41-21-314 70 55

Sur les hémorroïdes

Maimonides: On Hemorrhoids

Gerrit Bos, and Michael R. McVaugh

• Relié: 300 pages
• Editeur : Brigham Young University Press; 
• Collection : Medical Works of Moses Maimonides
• Langue : Anglais
• ISBN-10: 0842527893
• ISBN-13: 978-0842527897

Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Moses Maimonides, is among the most celebrated rabbis in the history of Judaism, and the author of works in Arabic on many subjects, including influential philosophical and medical treatises. On Hemorrhoids is one of these texts, written for a young man of a noble family who was seeking a regimen to help him treat his hemorrhoids. While not the first to write on this subject, Maimonides's work bears his personal stamp with his emphasis on dietetics, which plays a primary role in so many of his other medical writings.He warns against hastily treating the painful condition with drastic measures such as bleeding and surgery, instead encouraging more cautious treatments like a change in diet. He also advises his patient that if more extreme actions need to be taken, then Maimonides himself must be present.Unlike other modern editions of this important work, this edition of On Hemorrhoids takes into account all the extant Arabic and Judeo-Arabic manuscripts.The book includes critical editions of medieval Hebrew and Latin translations and a glossary of medical terms.

L'oeil et la main

L’œil et la main. Anatomies XVIe-XVIIIe siècles : outils, objets, symboles du savoir

Journée d’études organisée par l’ANR-Philomed et la BIU Santé, le 14 décembre 2012. Ouverte au public, elle se tiendra au 12 rue de l’Ecole de médecine, Paris 6e, Foyer des professeurs.

Renseignements : hcazes@uvic.ca

Pour l’anatomiste, œil et main sont des organes emblématiques de son art : voir pour donner à voir, toucher pour savoir, “démontrer” ce qui est découvert. Outils et objets de l’anatomie, l’œil et la main sont également les symboles de l’humanité (la main selon Anaxagore), de la science, ou encore de la création (l’union parfaite de l’œil et de la main, coordonnés idéalement en une immédiateté de la vision et de la mise en œuvre, définit traditionnellement l’art du peintre ou du sculpteur ). Ces organes représentent aussi, icôniquement, les modes et les statuts du savoir: manuel ou intellectuel, mécanique ou libéral, pratique ou théorique…

À la croisée de l’épistémologie, de l’écriture, de la pratique de la dissection et de l’édition, les études proposées toucheront / regarderont les sens, symboles et enjeux du discours et de la représentation des yeux et mains en anatomie.

Programme :

9h 40 Accueil des participants

10h Jean Céard (Université de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense) : “Un homme sans mains est-il encore un homme ?”

11h Anne-France Morand (Université Laval, Québec) : “Éloge de la main chez Galien.”

12h Jacqueline Vons (Université François Rabelais de Tours) : “André Vésale et l’anatomie de la main.”

13h-14h30 Déjeuner

14h30 Hélène Cazes (University of Victoria, Canada) : “Voir et savoir, le spectacle de la dissection selon Charles Estienne et l’art de l’anatomiste.”

15h30 Rafael Mandressi (Centre Alexandre Koyré) : « L’œil et la vérité : l’épistémologie sensorielle de l’anatomie de la Renaissance. »

16h30 Ariane Bayle (Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3, Centre de recherche : CEDFL) et Michel Jourde (ENS de Lyon, Centre de recherche : CERPHI, UMR 5037) : “Imprimeurs et chirurgiens : le savoir, la main et le bien faire (1530-1580).”

Histoire de la chimie

The 9th International Conference in the History of Chemistry (9ICHC) to be held at Uppsala University 21-23 August, 2013.





CHEMISTRY IN MATERIAL CULTURE
Keynote speakers:
Mary Jo Nye, Oregon State University, USA
Lawrence Principe, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Please check in on the website http://www.9ichc.seto register online and to obtain information about preliminary scientific program, special exhibitions, social program and venue.

This interdisciplinary conference welcomes participants from a range of academic disciplines, including history of science and technology, economic history, cultural heritage research and the STS-field, as well as participants from chemistry, material science and related disciplines who have an interest in contributing to the writing of the history of their fields.Chemistry is the premier science dealing with the material world. From early modern times to the present, chemists have been involved in the analysis and synthesis of materials, in manufacture and industrial production. Engaging in diverse fields such as medicine, metallurgy, dyeing, agriculture, et cetera the science has had an important part in the shaping of the modern world, and was in turn shaped through its interactions with technology and industry. Simultaneously, the chemical laboratory is a site where our concepts of reality may be redefined. Historically, chemists have had an important role in defining the relationship of modern culture with the material world.
The conference will investigate all aspects of the history of alchemy and chemistry in its engagement with material culture, including the chemistry of materials and the philosophy of matter. Papers might address:

* Chemical sites, objects and practices as cultural heritage.
* The philosophical meaning of chemical "materiality".
* Chemical industry and the commodification of chemicals.
* The cultural and economic significance of elements and other
chemical "objects".
* Museum collections of chemical instruments and other
chemistry-related objects.
* Laboratories and experiments.

Proposals for sessions, papers and posters are invited on any of these, or related topics. All submissions should be posted through the form on the conference website http://www.9ichc.se.

Deadline for abstract submission 31 March 2013

Congrès de la Société Européenne d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines

European Society for the History of Human Sciences (ESHHS) 

invites submissions to its annual conference to be held at University of Würzburg, Germany, 30 July to 02 August 2013

Papers, posters, symposia, or workshops may deal with any aspect of the history of the behavioral, human, and social sciences or with related historiographic and methodological issues.

Members of the program committee are:

Armin Stock, (University of Würzburg, Germany)

Sharman Levinson (Université d’Angers, France and the American University of Paris)

Petteri Pietikäinen (University of Oulu, Finland)

Submissions must be received by March 31st 2013, and must be sent electronically as

an attachment in MSWord (.doc, .docx) or .rtf format to:

armin.stock@uniwuerzburg.de ; slevinson.eshhs@gmail.com ; petteri.pietikainen@oulu.fi;

Papers: Submit a 500-600 word abstract plus short bibliography. The program committee welcomes original papers, i.e. not previously presented at other conferences or published.

Posters: Submit a 300 – 400 word abstract.

Symposia: Submit a 300 word abstract describing the symposium as a whole, and a 500-600 word abstract plus short bibliography from each of the participants.

Workshops: Contact local organizer Armin Stock: armin.stock@uniwuerzburg.de

A limited number of travel funds will be available to students and to scholars from countries with low value currencies who are presenting papers or posters. Please indicate along with your submission if you wish to be considered for this arrangement.

Conference site: University of Würzburg, Adolf WürthCenter for the History of Psychology: www.awz.uniwuerzburg.de

For updates on the conference, check the ESHHS website www.eshhs.eu and conference site www.awz.uniwuerzburg.de

le traumatisme de guerre

British Psychological Society History of Psychological Disciplines  Seminar Series

Organiser: Professor Sonu Shamdasani (UCL)

War Trauma in France and Italy (1920s-1980s)

Dr. Maria Teresa Brancaccio (Maastricht University)

Wednesday 21st November

Time: 6pm to 7.30pm

In the twentieth century, medical-psychological theories on the health effects of war-related suffering as well as their social recognition presented large variations in different European countries. Focusing on
the medical debates and on the diagnostic categories adopted in France and in Italy in the aftermaths of the two World Wars, the paper will investigate how changes in medical, social, and political thinking
influenced the understanding of war trauma in the two countries.


Location: UCL Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, Room 544,* 5th Floor, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB

Directions: From the main reception, go through the double doors at the back and turn left, walk the length of this corridor and at the very end turn left again - you will find yourself in front of the 'West' Lifts. Take these to 5th Floor. On exiting the lift, turn right through double doors and then left through single door, walk the length of this corridor pass through another door and then turn right - you will see a marble table ahead. Room 544 is straight ahead.

Santé, santé mentale et littérature

Call for Papers

Health, Mental Health, and Literature

The Boston College English Graduate Conference seeks abstracts for papers that consider the intersection between health, mental health, and literature.

Considering recent interdisciplinary developments in the field of "medical humanities," we are interested in exploring the ways in which literature and other creative arts have attempted to represent or otherwise understand health, which is so often analyzed from a clinical or scientific perspective. We seek papers that work to synthesize clinical approaches and literary approaches to the mind and body. What can be gained by merging literary and scientific analyses?

Possible topics might include, but are certainly not limited to:

• Representations of mental illness in literature, pop culture, or historical texts
• The role of rhetoric, language, and creativity in medical writing
• Representations of the healthy or sick body in literature
• The ethics of "diagnosing" literary or historical figures
• Literature's role in normalizing, otherizing, or popularizing mental or physical ailments
• Literary analyses of psychological writing or scientific writing

Our conference will be held on Saturday, March 9 at Boston College. Boston College is located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts and is easily accessible to downtown Boston. See www.bc.edu for additional campus information.

For questions and submissions, please contact dailym@bc.edu.

Submissions are due by Tuesday, January 15th.