Medieval European manuscripts are full of portrayals of disability. From allegorical figures to pilgrims seeking cures at saints’ shrines, to medical texts describing early surgeries for cleft palates, manuscripts depict many forms of disability and many individual disabled people in images and words. For instance, above on the left: Detail of Old Age, portrayed as a woman with a crutch from the Roman de la Rose. In the center: part of an account of miracles healing blind, deaf and paralysed people at the tomb of St Swithun, Winchester. On the right: detail of Christ and an ill man, from the Theodore Psalter. Each depicts or describes various disabilities that the manuscript’s illustrators and writers would have been familiar with.
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