CFP Kalamazoo 2001

AVISTA Sponsored Sessions
at the 36^th International Congress
on Medieval Studies, 2001

 Call for Papers

Short Form

20-25 minute paper presentations on all aspects of research touching on the Medieval hospital and medical practice.Abstracts for proposals should be sent to

Barbara S. Bowers,
The Ohio State University,
Jones Twr. 455,
101 Curl Dr.,
Columbus Ohio, 43210,
Email: bbowers@osu.edu
Phone: 614-688-9556.

Deadline: September 15, 2000.

Full CFP

1. Hospital, site and structure:
   • Setting, furnishings, art, architecture, archaeological evidence
2. Image and object, sources for studying the Medieval hospital and medical practice
3. Hospital foundation and regulation
   • Monastic, municipal, church involvement
   • Charters, regulations, patronage, customs
4. Military connections
   • Hospitalers, Order of St. Anthony
   • Field hospital and battlefield surgery
5. Disease, epidemiology, plague, leprosy
6. The practice of medicine, practical and theoretical
   • Remedies, cures, regimen, diagnosis, prognosis, surgery and surgical instruments
7. Reconstructing Medieval medical practice.
   • Presentations by scholars of research involving practical experiments with Medieval medical treatment, herbs, remedies, botanicals, alchemy, and/or presentations of parallel cases in modern medical use of leeches, phlebotomy, or other treatments with Medieval origins serving to inform historical research.

Abstracts for proposals should be sent to

Barbara S. Bowers,
The Ohio State University,
Jones Twr. 455,
101 Curl Dr.,
Columbus Ohio, 43210,
Email: bbowers@osu.edu
Phone: 614-688-9556.

Deadline: September 15, 2000.