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SUMMARY:Spaces of healing: Byzantium and medieval Islam compared - Peregri
 ne Horden (Royal Holloway\, University of London)
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CONTACT:Lauren Kassell
DESCRIPTION:After general preliminary consideration of the spatial dimensi
 ons of pre-modern medicine\, this paper will focus on the spaces of hospit
 als and hospital-like institutions such as healing shrines\, comparing Byz
 antium and Islam\, principally across the ninth to twelfth centuries. The 
 aim is to set hospitals in both empires in a wider setting of charitable a
 ctions -- and spaces.\n \nPeregrine Horden is Professor of Medieval Histor
 y at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, and an Extraordinary Research
  Fellow of All Souls College\, Oxford. He is co-author\, with Nicholas Pur
 cell\, of _The Corrupting Sea_ (Blackwell\, 2000)\, and is at work on its 
 sequel\, _Liquid Continents_. His recent publications include _Hospitals a
 nd Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages_ (Aldershot: Ashgate\, 
 2008)\, and he is writing a general book on early hospitals for Yale Unive
 rsity Press.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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