Medica, the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages invites submissions for a panel entitled:
Healing Journeys: Travelling for Body and Soul in Late Medieval Culture
to be hosted at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, 12-15 July 2010.
We encourage a broad interpretation of the theme from a variety of disciplines, such as history of medicine, literary studies, material culture and religious history.
Papers may consider:
- Portable Healing
- Physiology and the Ages of Man
- Bodily and Spiritual Journeys for Healing
- Representations of the Body and Medical Healing in Otherworldly Journeys
- Medical Pilgrims and their Detractors