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2005 | Home > Events > Brown Bag Series > 2005 > Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The First Five Years of Montaigne’s Life: Readings From a Biography in Progress' |
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Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The First Five Years of Montaigne’s Life: Readings From a Biography in Progress' Date: 9/12/2005; 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Location: Osterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor Host Department: Institute for the Humanities Featuring Our Fellows Series George Hoffmann, Romance Languages Detailed Information George Hoffmann’s biography-in-progress of Michel Montaigne (1533-1592) begins thus: “Just before noon on the last day of February, after having lost two previous children, Antoinette de Lopez delivered a boy. Anxiously awaited, the child had arrived late, though not so late as the eleventh month that, adult, he liked to claim. The umbilical cord was quickly tied and cut in order to prevent the newborn’s ‘vital spirits’ from seeping away. But far more preoccupying were those substances that might linger in the body. A doctor, whose professional qualifications essentially amounted, at the time, to being versed in the fine arts of purgation, administered to the baby the first in a life-long series of enemas, using a mixture of honey and almond oil in order to cleanse him of any residual meconium. After being bathed, he was tightly swaddled to keep his limbs from growing crookedly. The blanket in which he was wrapped changed, at best, once a day: he would spend most of the next months sleeping in his own excrement.” To be continued … Contact Information Doretha Coval dcoval@umich.edu 734 936 3518 |
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