Event Description

The Medieval Academy of America is delighted to host a Speculum webinar that launches January 2021’s themed issue dedicated to the timely topic of “Disease, Death, and Therapy” (vol. 96.1). The speakers include:

Shannon Gayk  – Apocalyptic Ecologies: Eschatology, the Ethics of Care, and the Fifteen Signs of the Doom in Early England

Michael McCormick – Gregory of Tours on Sixth-Century Plague and Other Epidemics

Hannah Barker – Laying the Corpses to Rest: Grain, Embargoes, and Yersinia pestis in the Black Sea, 1346–48

Daniel R. Curtis – From one Mortality Regime to Another? Mortality Crises in Late Medieval Haarlem, Holland, in Perspective

Renata Pieragostini – The Healing Power of Music? Documentary Evidence from Late-Fourteenth-Century Bologna

Thursday 14 January 2021, 12pm-2pm EST

Source: http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/upcoming-speculum-webinar-on-disease-death-and-therapy/

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