{"id":3258,"date":"2025-10-28T23:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/?p=3258"},"modified":"2025-10-28T23:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T20:17:01","slug":"diagnosing-an-empire-james-gilmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/diagnosing-an-empire-james-gilmer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Diagnosing an Empire: Emperors and Disease in the Chronographia\u201d by StoryPharm fellow James Gilmer."},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>&#8220;Diagnosing an Empire: Emperors and Disease in the Chronographia\u201d by StoryPharm fellow James Gilmer.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0cm;background: white\"><span style=\"color: #1b1b1b\">James Gilmer, one of StoryPharm fellows hosted by the University of Cardiff is investigating the relationship\u00a0between imperial illness and the \u2018rot\u2019 in the imperial administration through the <i>Chronographia<\/i>\u00a0of Michael Psellos. James will use evidence from contemporary and Byzantine medicine to answer the perplexing question: does an ailing emperor infect the imperial administration, or does an ailing administration lead to disease in the reigning emperor? This exciting talk is given in the context of the Cardiff Ancient History and Religion Seminar Series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0cm\"><span style=\"color: #1b1b1b\"><br \/>\nJames\u2019\u00a0research project <i>Byzantine Imperial Women in Narratives of Illness and Healing<\/i>\u00a0focuses upon the association between Byzantine empresses, princesses, and imperial women with medicine and suffering during the middle Byzantine period. As part of his research, he will be examining the intertextual relationships between genres of written works with the goal of demonstrating the gendered aspects of suffering and the healing process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0cm\"><span style=\"color: #1b1b1b\"><br \/>\nFor more information on the lecture and how to attend online please see the flyer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2025\/10\/Diagnosing-an-Empire-Emperors-and-Disease-in-the-Chronographia.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StoryPharm fellow James Gilmer (Cardiff University) explores the link between imperial illness and political decay in Byzantium through Michael Psellos\u2019 Chronographia. His lecture \u201cDiagnosing an Empire: Emperors and Disease in the Chronographia\u201d examines whether a sick ruler weakens the state, or whether a corrupt state sickens its ruler. The talk is part of the Cardiff Ancient History and Religion Seminar Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":3251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"modified_by":"pavlosmi","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 07:56:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}