Why Study Disability and Disease with Christina Lee

Dr Christina Lee, Associate Professor of Viking Studies in the School of English, looks at how disability and disease were viewed by Christians during the Middle Ages. She uses evidence that comes from archaeology and from literary texts to reveal a rather surprising picture: the disabled were cared for by society and there was an assumption that the prayers of the impaired and weak had a special efficacy.
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