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‘BETTER OFF DEAD THAN DISFIGURED’? THE CHALLENGES OF FACIAL INJURY IN THE PRE-MODERN PAST
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Volume: 26, Pages: 25 - 41
Swansea University Author:
Patricia Skinner
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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/s0080440116000037
Abstract
This paper contrasts modern representations of facial disfigurement, which often focus on the personal story of 'triumph over adversity', with the problems of accessing such first-person accounts in the medieval past. It examines a number of approaches to the history of facial disfiguremen...
| Published in: | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society |
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| ISSN: | 0080-4401 1474-0648 |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2016
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa30091 |
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This paper contrasts modern representations of facial disfigurement, which often focus on the personal story of 'triumph over adversity', with the problems of accessing such first-person accounts in the medieval past. It examines a number of approaches to the history of facial disfigurement in early medieval Europe, and suggests that this history has been neglected because it does not fit comfortably into existing disciplinary categories such as medical history or disability studies. |
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Open Access supported by Wellcome Trust grant number 097469 |
| Keywords: |
disfigurement, faces, facial injury, medieval Europe, biography, disability, medicine, surgery |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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25 |
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41 |