Ithaca College

Professor Matthew Klemm (History) presented a paper entitled "Animal and Human Emotion in Medieval Medical Thought" for a session called "The Familiar Animal and the Animal Other" at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 3-6.

Klemm's thesis was that medieval medical theorists went to great pains to argue that the physiology and psychology of emotions are essentially different for animals than for humans. They did this to extol the human subject and create a distinction between us and other animals, even in cases where we seem to share similar emotions. 

More information on this conference can be found here:  http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125137/international_medieval_congress