This symposium aims to bring together scholars of diferent disciplines and specialisations who are interested in the formation and evolution of places or spaces for healing in the pre-historic, ancient and mediaeval worlds, their relations with the religious and rational spheres and also how we are able to identify them today from the archaeological, osteological and textual record.
The identification of structures and places associated with the practice of curing or evidence for the worship of deities believed to prevent and protect from or heal illness, further enrich the reconstruction and understan-ding of medical practice in the past. The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars of different discip-lines and specializations who are interested in in-patient and clinical care and therapy in all aspects and forms such as cabinets, private, valetudinaria, temples and holy places, asklepieia, and xenodocheia, from prehistory up to medieval times.
We welcome a wide spectrum of papers presenting different perspectives incl. an interdisciplinary approach, as well as case studies.