Disease, Disability & Medicine in Early Medieval Europe AD 400-1200

General Editors: Dr Sally Crawford and Dr Christina Lee

1. Published by Archaeopress of Oxford, this new peer reviewed series is designed to cover the growing discipline of the study of the history of disease and medicine in the ancient and early medieval world, from prehistory to the Middle Ages. Although a number of highly regarded peer reviewed journals already exist that cover the history of medicine in general, there are none that specifically cover both the ancient and medieval world. This is a lacuna that needs to be filled.

Volume 1 is now available from Archaeopress.

Economies of Disease & Disability from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
University of Nottingham, 3rd & 4th December 2011**

The ‘Disease, Disability and Medicine’ workshops have been a leading UK interdisciplinary forum for scholars working in a variety of disciplines and regions of Medieval Europe . For this year’s workshop we are inviting both scholars in Medieval Studies and Antiquity.

The topic for the 5th workshop is: ‘Economies of Disease & Disability from Antiquity to the Middle Ages’ .

The current economic climate is seeing a renegotiation of the parameters of disability; similar renegotiations must have happened in previous centuries. This workshop will address the following: how did wealth and economy impact on the lives of the impaired their carers and their dependants in Antiquity and Medieval Europe? We are inviting contributions from any discipline related to medical humanities.

Proposals are invited for any aspect of health and wealth, which may include the following topics:

- poverty and disability (is disability wealth-related?)

- definitions of disability

- benefits/ charity and charitable institutions for the impaired

- health economies

- the economic impact of epidemics

- the language of disability

- burial and wealth of the impaired

- work and status

We also welcome proposals applying contemporary models to medieval and antique evidence and vice versa.

Please send abstracts (no more than 500 words) to Dr Christina Lee: christina.lee@nottingham.ac.uk by 30th September 2011

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