Le lexique des maladies au moyen âge

The Lexicon of Diseases in the Middle Ages: Languages, Translations, Authors

Workshop

Leuven, Friday 25 November 2022
Huis Bethlehem, auditorium Wolfspoort 00.08
Schapenstraat 34
 

9:30-9:45: Opening of the workshop

9:45-10:30: Charles Burnet (Warburg Institute, London)
The Arabic-Latin Astrological Tradition of Disease Names and Descriptions

10:30-11:15: Stefania Fortuna (University of Ancona)
Disease names in the Latin translations from Middle Ages to Renaissance
 

11:15-11:45: Coffee Break
 

11:45-12:30: Iolanda Ventura (University of Bologna)
Constructing a Pathological Vocabulary in the Medical School of Salerno
 

12:30-14:30: Sandwich lunch
 

14:30-15:15: Outi Merisalo (University of Jyväskylä)
"Gręce liquoides, latine lupus id est strangulatio”. The names of the diseases in the pseudo-Galenic De spermate
 

15:15-16:00: Alessandra Foscat (KU Leuven University)
Disease lexicon in Middle Ages: Two case studies
 

16-16:30: Coffee Break
 

16:30-18:00: Round table. Moderator: Michèle Goyens
 

 

Scientific committee:
Michèle Goyens (KU Leuven); Alessandra Foscati (KU Leuven), Brigitte Meijns (KU Leuven), Jeroen Deploige (U Gent), Kaat Wils (KU Leuven), Joris Vandendriessche
(KU Leuven)
 

Organising committee:
Alessandra Foscati (KU Leuven), Michèle Goyens (KU Leuven), Jeroen Deploige (U Gent), Brigitte Meijns (KU Leuven)
 

Info and registration at:
Contact: alessandra.foscati@kuleuven.be
This workshop is part of the activities of the SIDELINE project (https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/qlvl/projects/current/sideline/