Medicine of Words: Literature, Medicine, and Theology in the Middle Ages. . (360G-Wellcome-107732_Z_15_Z)

£5,657

Funding is requested to host a conference, Medicine of Words: Literature, Theology, and Medicine in the Middle Ages planned to take place at St Anne's College, Oxford, on 11-12th September 2015. The conference will mark the final year of the project, Salus Animae: Therapeutic Reading in Medieval England funded by the Leverhulme Trust (October 2012 September 2015) and hosted by the Faculty of English Language and Literature. This project explores how reading was understood as a therapeutic act d uring the Middle Ages. Specifically, it investigates how vernacular religious writings directed at the laity aimed to promote health of the soul by evoking intense negative emotions such as fear and sorrow. The conference aims to disseminate the research undertaken by the project: the medieval understanding of therapeutic reading, the impact of theology on therapeutic reading, and how monastic reading practices were developed for wider use by the laity. The conference also aims to disseminate re search by scholars working in related areas in the UK, the European Union, and USA; to highlight the potential of this field for graduate research; and to initiate new collaborations in order to continue and build on the research pioneered by the project.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 5657
Applicant Surname McCann
Approval Committee Humanities and Social Science, Small Grants Committee
Award Date 2015-02-02T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2014/15
Grant Programme: Title Small grant in H&SS
Internal ID 107732/Z/15/Z
Lead Applicant Dr Daniel McCann
Partnership Value 5657
Planned Dates: End Date 2015-10-10T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2015-09-11T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region South East