HIST 356 Lecture 3: HIST 356 Conferences.docx
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Conference 1: anglo-saxon medicine a case study in early medieval medicine: which elements of bald"s leechbook and leechbook iii would you characterize as. Unresponsive, source of the power defines difference between legitimate religious healing and illegitimate paganism (not asking church for help) vs. worshipping natural force. Leechbook iii = recorded beyond church: brain as source of voluntary motion, but command is not being conveyed to muscles because something is blocked in the sinews and nerves, message cannot be conveyed to limb (must purge) Take home message: eclectic, empirical, pragmatic mix of of greco-roman, christian, and. Folkloric medicine (most of which had been sanitized), neat distictions we make between each = our categories, not theirs. Conference 2: anatomy in the medieval schools: each of these texts makes a claim to realism, but each also engages the reader in an imaginative process. In the second salernitan demonstration we are supposed to look at a pig, but see a human.
