Institute for Medieval Studies
IMC 2022 Session
| Session | 1205 |
| Title | Cripping Normative Time: Being and Becoming Disabled in Medieval Europe |
| Date/Time | Wednesday 6 July 2022: 14.15-15.45 |
| Organiser | Ninon Dubourg, Départment d'Histoire, Université de Liège |
| Adelheid Russenberger, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London | |
| Moderator/Chair | Adelheid Russenberger, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London |
| Paper 1205-a | Boundaries between Age, Health, Ability, and Work: Aging in Medieval England (Language: English) Wendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology & Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia Index Terms: Daily Life; Medicine |
| Paper 1205-b | Drawing the Borders of Crip Time in Women's Monastic Life, c. 1200-1300 (Language: English) Amelia Kennedy, Institut für Geschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Index Terms: Gender Studies; Medicine; Religious Life |
| Abstract | Disability disrupts and challenges normative notions of time and personal development, just as the progress of time leads to impairment. These papers explore how time itself and social expectations of an individual's life-time in medieval Europe could disable individuals; and consider how a Disabled individual's own experience of time could challenge the artificial boundaries of normative time. |