Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Nottingham

The fourth annual Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Nottingham on Sunday 12th December. The event opens at 10.00 and covers several topics including:

‘Disabilities of Mind: Text and Narrative’ by Sally Crawford /Paul Crawford (School of Nursing, University of Nottingham) Christina Lee Wendy Turner (Augusta State University) Mental Health in Later Medieval England ‘Three Ventricles in Medieval Brain Mapping and Three Categories of Mental Disability in medieval law: a connection?’ Anne Bailey (Oxford University): 'Madness and Miracles: Hagiographical perceptions of mental illness in twelfth-century England'Legal impediments Chair: Irina Metzler: (Swansea University) ‘Speechless: Hearing and speech impairment as a medieval legal problem’ Ivette Nuckel (University of Bremen): ‘Risk and Danger in Late Medieval Underground Mining

Theresa Tyers & Rachel Middlemass (University of Nottingham): ‘Disabling Masculinity: manhood and infertility in the High Middle Ages’

On Monday 13th December:
The Impaired Body in the Scandinavian North Chair: Judith Jesch Malte Ringer (University of Nottingham): '”Seals’ fins and dogs’ heads”: infants with disabilities in the Nordic law codes' Amy Mulligan (University of Bergen): ‘The Boundaries of the Human: monstrous births, class-based deformity and anxious determination of bodily normativity in Old Norse-Icelandic and Anglo-Saxon literature and law’ Anne Irene Riisøy (Oslo University): ‘Heads, shoulders, knees and toes: body evaluation the Viking Way’

Leprosy Chair: Christina Lee Damien Jeanne (CRAHAM, University of Caen): ‘Leprosy, lepers and leper-houses in between human law and God’s law – 12th – 13th centuries’ Spencer Smith (Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales): ‘Under the skin of a Landscape: Medieval Leper Houses in North Wales’ Simon Roffey (University of Winchester): ’A tenth-century Leper Hospital? Excavations at St Mary Magdalen, Winchester’

Anglo-Saxon Minds and Bodies Chair: Sally Crawford Fay Skevington (King’s College, London): ‘The Unwhole are not like the Whole: the Semantics of Anglo-Saxon Disability’ Sarah Gilbert (Cambridge University), ‘A preliminary investigation of the treatment of people with mental illness or impairment in Anglo-Saxon England’

Contact: Christina.lee@nottingham.ac.uk for further information or see http://disease.nottingham.ac.uk/doku.php