Le langage médical et ses contextes dans l'Occident latin médiéval

Medical Words/Medical Worlds: Medical Language and its Contexts in the Medieval Latin West
 

Workshop

5-6 June 2025
Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
 

Thursday, 5 June 2025
10.00-11.00 Visit to the Curious Cures Exhibition, Cambridge University Library
(Group 1)

13.00-13.30 Arrival with Coffee

13.30-14.00 Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Welcome and Introduction to eDIL, the
Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Deborah Hayden, Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic World: Lexicography and the LEIGHEAS Project

14.00-15.00 David Stifter, The Lexicography and Etymology of Medieval Irish Medical Terminology 

15.00-15.30 Coffee Break

15.30-16.30 Siobhán Barrett, Máel Eachlainn Mac an Leagha’s Concise and Beneficial Compendium

17.00-18.00 Visit to the Curious Cures Exhibition, Cambridge University Library
(Group 2)

18.30 Book Launch: Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World: Vernacular Texts and Traditions, ed. by Deborah Hayden and Sarah Baccianti (Brepols, 2025)

Friday, 6 June 2025
9.00-9.30 Arrival with Coffee

9.30-11.30 Keith Busby, ‘Yes, we have no bananas’: Jofroi de Waterford, Servais Copale, and the Import Trade in early Fourteenth-century Waterford Chiara Benati, Rational Surgery Translated into the Vernacular: The German Versions of Lanfranc of Milan’s Chirurgia magna

11.30-11.45 Tea, Coffee, etc.

11.45-12.45 Conan Doyle, Lost in Translation: Errors, Omissions and Variant
Translations of Latin Medical Recipes in Old English (850-1200)

12.45-13.45 Lunch

13.45-15.45 Debby Banham, ‘Then said he who wrote this book ...’: Dealing with
Plant Names in Bald’s Leechbook and Leechbook III
Diana Luft, English Elements in Medieval Welsh Medical Recipes

15.45-16.00 Coffee Break

16.00-18.00 Fleur Vigneron & Michèle Goyens, Creating a Vernacular Terminology in Mediaeval France: The Case of Botany and Medicine Sharon Arbuthnot, Medieval Irish Medical Vocabulary: Lives and
After-lives