{"id":3422,"date":"2017-03-28T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2017-03-28T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:00:47","slug":"iash-fellows-speaker-series-penance-as-medicine-intersecting-genres-in-early-medieval-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2017\/03\/28\/iash-fellows-speaker-series-penance-as-medicine-intersecting-genres-in-early-medieval-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"IASH Fellows Speaker Series: \u201cPenance as Medicine: Intersecting Genres in Early Medieval Thought&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Leja, assistant professor of history, will speak on \u201cPenance as Medicine: Intersecting Genres in Early Medieval Thought\u201cat <strong>noon Wednesday, March 29, in LN-1106<\/strong>, the IASH Conference Room.<\/p>\n<p>This paper interrogates parallels between the treatment of physical and moral pollution during a formative period of medieval thought. Early medieval authors frequently employed metaphors comparing pastoral and medical care. Through a close analysis of penitential and medical literature from the ninth-century Carolingian Empire, Leja examines how these comparisons shaped the diagnosis and treatment of physical and spiritual maladies. In particular, she considers the concept of &#8220;necessity&#8221; and its use in evolving beliefs about moral behavior and sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Leja, assistant professor of history, will speak on \u201cPenance as Medicine: Intersecting Genres in Early Medieval Thought\u201cat noon Wednesday, March 29, in LN-1106, the IASH Conference Room. This paper interrogates parallels between the treatment of physical and moral pollution during a formative period of medieval thought. Early medieval authors frequently employed metaphors comparing pastoral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-binghamton-university-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}