Selected Proceedings of the GCMS Postgraduate Conference 2014: ‘The Maladies, Miracles and Medicine of the Middle Ages’

Selected Proceedings from ‘The Maladies, Miracles and Medicine of the Middle Ages’, a Postgraduate Conference of the GCMS, organised by Ruth Salter, March 2014

Edited by Ruth Salter.

All papers were peer-reviewed by colleagues in the GCMS.

Photo by Ruth Salter: The Hospitium of Reading Abbey.

St John's Hopsitium Reading Abbey

~Table of Contents and Foreword~

Julia Bolotina
Support for the Sick Poor in Anglo-Saxon England
Bolotina J. Support for the Sick Poor – CORRECTION

Jessica Legacy
Reading the Body: A Textual Analysis of the interpolated Middle English version of the Anatomy of Guy de Chauliac
Legacy, J. Reading the Body

Harriet Mahood
The Liminality of Care: Caring for the Sick and Needy on the Boundaries of Monasteries
Mahood, H. The Liminality of Care

Katie Phillips
Saint Louis, Saint Francis and the Leprous Monk at Royaumont
Philips, K. Louis, Francis and the Leprous Monk

Ruth Salter
Only Half-Healed: The Unusual Accounts of Deaf and Mute in 12th-century Hagiography
Salter, R. Only Half Healed

Helen Smith
The Afflicted Jewish body: Cure and Conversion in Medieval Drama
Smith, H. The Afflicted Jewish Body

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