http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/conf-inst/diseasedisability.html
Newberry Library
Center for Renaissance Studies
Symposium on Disease and Disability in the Middles Ages and Renaissance
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Ruggles Hall, The Newberry Library
Due to space restrictions, registration in advance is required (see
below).
9:30 a.m. Coffee and continental breakfast
10:00 a.m.
Disability in the Middle Ages
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February
Ann Moyer (History -- Univ. of Pennsylvania) has a wonderful reviewup on H-Netof Paul McLean's recent book, The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence. Many aspects of this review should be of interest to a medical humanities audience.
Moyer notes:
To get things done, then, required knowing whom to ask; it also required that the petitioner have something to offer, whether now or later, tangible or intangible, to repay the favor. And of course these urban citizens lived their lives embedded in a number of relationships of different sorts: family, profession, neighborhood, political party, and so on, to a very long list of social groupings and obligations, any or all of whose members might hope to make claims on one another over the course of a career or a lifetime.
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July