Medical Words/Medical Worlds: Medical Language and its Contexts in the Medieval Latin West
‘Medical Words/Medical Worlds’ is a workshop to be held in Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge on 5-6 June 2025, co-hosted by the projects LEIGHEAS: Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic World (Maynooth University) and eDIL: A Dictionary of the Irish Language (University of Cambridge and Queen’s University Belfast). Speakers will explore medieval medical lexicography and translation in a range of linguistic traditions, including Irish, Welsh, German, French and English. The workshop will include a visit to the ‘Curious Cures’ exhibition at the Cambridge University Library and the launch of the volume Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World. Vernacular Texts and Traditions, ed. by Deborah Hayden and Sarah Baccianti (Brepols, 2025).
