Whole, Holy, Healthy: Sickness and the Body in the Medieval North Atlantic
UCLA Department of English, Kaplan Hall 193 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CAWhat does it mean, culturally speaking, to get sick? What makes a body healthy? This talk explores depictions of disease in medical remedies and healing charms from the medieval North Atlantic, a multilingual zone of intensive cultural interaction and exchange. These vivid texts allow us to better understand how medieval people thought about their own bodies and about the place of humanity in a hostile world – deconstructing cultural anxieties and fantasies around the idea of an individuated, embodied self. Register here to attend. The talk will be followed by a Q & A moderated by Erica Weaver, assistant professor...