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SUMMARY:Healing Words: Hagiographic Evidence for Medieval Medical Practice
 s - Hilary Powell
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CONTACT:Dr Moritz Baumstark
DESCRIPTION:Hagiographic narratives\, with their colourful tales of miracu
 lous cures performed by saints\, have frequently been used to illuminate m
 edieval healing practices. In many cases historians have sought to draw co
 mparisons\, but in so doing they have detached these narratives from their
  political and social contexts. This paper explores the conceptual and met
 hodological problems associated with using saints’ Lives as sources of h
 istorical enquiry. By basing much of the discussion on a single case study
  – the hagiography of St Mildrith – this paper will demonstrate that i
 t is only through close textual\, contextual and codicological study that 
 we can begin to piece together a picture of medieval therapeutic practice.
  
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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