La médecine médiévale

Medieval Medicine

London Medieval Society Colloquium

Date & Location: Saturday 5th May 2018, 11 Bedford Square, London WC1 3RA

Join us to explore medieval medicine at this one day colloquium with papers ranging from medical expertise and remedies in England and Normandy and the dissemination of Arabic and Persian medical works in Byzantium to the mapping the medieval brain and the origins of public health. Guest speakers include Alison Hudson (British Library), Elma Brenner (Wellcome Institute), Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (King’s College London), Bill MacLehose (UCL) and Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway). A wine reception which will immediately follow the colloquium.

Programme:

10.45 Registration

11.00 ‘Feeling no Pain? Remedies and Rhetoric in England c.1000’, Alison Hudson

(British Library).

11.45 ‘Medical Expertise in Medieval Normandy’, Elma Brenner (Wellcome Institute)

12.30 Lunch

1.30 ‘The Dissemination of Arabic and Persian Medical Works in Byzantium’, Petros

Bouras-Vallianatos (King’s College London)

2.15 ‘The Normal and the Pathological: Mapping the Brain in Medieval Medicine’,

Bill MacLehose (UCL)

3.00 Coffee

3.30 ‘The Origins of European Public Health?’ Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway)

4.15 Round Table (Chair: Daniel McCann, Lincoln College, Oxford)

5.00 Wine Reception

Information:

Tickets £5

Book your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medieval-medicine-tickets-44481357939

Find about more here: https://londonmedievalsociety.com/colloquia/