Disabled Touch in the Middle Ages
UW Elvehjem Building 800 University Ave. , Madison, Wisconsin 53703
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EDWARD WHEATLEY, Dept. of English, Loyola University, Chicago
February 9 @ 4p, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, L150
Borghesi-Mellon Workshop on Science, Nature, and Wonder in the Middle Ages
This lecture will examine aspects of the science of touch and the judicial, cultural, and religious significance of th edisabling of its synecdochic representatiive, the hand. Drawing from such works as On the Property of Things and Middle English Fyve Wittes, the lecture will analyze the intersection of science and spirituality, with a special focus on disabling miracles of chastisement in which sinners lose the use of their hands; the most signifcant of these miracles were associated with the Virgin Mary, and were frequently represented in manuscript illuminations, stained glass, and other visual arts. Workshop "The Religious Model of Disability" at 12:00 in Art History Department, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room 150. RSVP for reading to tedale@wisc.edu.