[1] Hospitals Holistically: A Wide View of Hospitals and Caregiving in the Middle Ages.

From: Brittany Forniotis
Date: Jul 30, 2023

We seek participants for both paper panels and a roundtable discussion on topics related to medieval hospitals and leprosaria in a discussion of all aspects of the institution. Hospitals were prominent sites of charitable caregiving in medieval communities, and the study of their establishment, staffing, and social services enriches our understanding of medieval life. Topics of interest within the hospital include, but are not limited to: labor practices, the spatial organization of caregiving, methods and tools of treatment, carative / medical education and theory, representations and understandings of hospitals, and local and regional community-building. We encourage papers addressing a wide range of geographies and time periods. We also seek participation from a robustly interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse group of scholars, inclusive of archaeologists, art historians, and historians of science and economics.

Conference: International Congress of Medieval Studies
Sponsoring Organization: International Network for the History of Hospitals
Format: In-Person Paper Sessions & Roundtable
Length: 250 Words
Session ID #s: Panels (4954, 4956), Roundtable (4957)
Co-Organizers: Christopher Herde (cherdewisc.edu) & Brittany Forniotis (bnf11duke.edu)

Please contact Brittany Forniotis (bnf11duke.edu) with any questions.