The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ?s wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured

This volume brings together essays that consider wounding and/or wound repair from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, militar

The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacte

The High Middle Ages have been seen as an important point within the development of governmental and administrative bureaucracy, as well as a time in which ther

This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license. This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing tha