Disability and Accessibility Workshop

Unit 2: Physical Disabilities

Representations

Recent Analysis

Featured Individual: Richard III

Representations

Explore: Ninon Dubourg, "Marginalisation on the Margins – Historical Perspectives on Representations of Physical Disability in some Medieval Manuscript’s Margins"

Read: "Representations of Disabilities and Illnesses in Medieval Manuscripts," British Library Medieval Manuscripts Blog

Recent Analysis

Read: Blair Nolan, et. al., "Disability and Care in Late Medieval Lund, Sweden: An Analysis of Trauma and Intersecting Identities, Aided by Photogrammetric Digitization and Visualization"

Featured Individual: Richard III

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View: Photo Album of Richard III

Checkpoint

What physical disabilities do you want to explore more?

What can we learn from the burials of people with disabilities?

What is the significance that post-medieval representations of Richard III tried to use his disability to illustrate his immorality?

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