 |
University of Cambridge
Faculty of History
West Road
CB3 9EF
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Louise Elizabeth Wilson
|
|
|
My doctoral research investigates the influence of legal, theological, medical and natural philosophical developments on medieval conceptions of the natural and supernatural worlds. My thesis approaches this topic by examining miracle accounts and canonization records composed during the central middle ages.
Building on these foundations, my postdoctoral research investigates how twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth-century developments in natural philosophy and medicine reconstructed the concept of the miraculous. I will also explore how ideas about the miraculous were formulated and implemented down the church hierarchy, generating new ways of approaching the natural and supernatural throughout medieval society.
|
| |
|
Recent Publications
|
- L. E. Wilson, ʻHagiographical Interpretations of Disability in the Twelfth-Century Miracula of St Frideswide of
Oxfordʼ, in The Treatment of Disabled Persons in Medieval Europe: Examining Disability in the Historical,
Legal, Literary, Medical, and Religious Discourses, edited by W. J. Turner and T. Vandeventer Pearman
(Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 2011). | | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
|
 |
