Disability and War in the Late Middle Ages: Becoming, Surviving, Managing

Issues relating to disability and war remain largely overlooked by military and disability historians. This exclusion is all the more striking since there was hardly a more likely place for receiving permanent injury than a battle, and we can barely imagine a worse place for disabled people than a battlefield. This volume aims to shed new light on a topic pertaining to multiple fields of research: social history, technical medical history, disability history, military history, and the Genesis of the Modern State.

This book gathers specialists of premodern history to bring together new research from a variety of disciplines—history, archaeology, literature, and modern medicine—and working with diverse sources, such as account books, biographies, poems, romance texts, Icelandic sagas, petitions and pardon letters, post-battle records, prostheses, skeletons and funerary treatments, chronicles, and theoretical treatises.

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Introduction. - Disability and War: Becoming, Surviving, Managing
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- By Ninon Dubourg, Christophe Masson
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Chapter 1 - The Recidivists: Healed Cranial Trauma from Conflicts in the Late Medieval Period
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- By Christopher J. Knüsel
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Chapter 2 - Disability and Trauma in Battle in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas
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- By Yoav Tirosh
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Chapter 3 - Hungry for Love: Disabling the Knightly Body and Mind through Starvation in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur
pp 79-98
- By Kristina Hildebrand
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Chapter 4 - A Vulnerable Military Masculinity: Soldiers and Disability in Late Medieval Pardon Letters (France, England, and the Low Countries)
pp 99-120
- By Quentin Verreycken
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Chapter 5 - Traumatic Repercussions: Warfare and Disability in the French Countryside
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- By Aleksandra Pfau
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Chapter 6 - Investigating the Lifecycle of the Medieval English Soldier: Disability, Mental Trauma, and Medicine in Connection with War in Late Medieval English Records
pp 143-164
- By Wendy J. Turner
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Chapter 7 - “What pain I suffered at that time, anyone can well imagine”: Experiences of War, Injury, and Pain in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland
pp 165-192
- By Bianca Frohne
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Chapter 8 - Mechanism/Organism: The Premodern Iron Hand as Conceptual Interface
pp 193-210
- By John Gagné
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Chapter 9 - After Combat: War Wounds, Soldiers’ Benefits, and Dynastic Policies in the Burgundian-Habsburg Armies (1363–1506)
pp 211-238
- By Michael Depreter
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Index
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Becoming, Surviving, Managing

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-ix

Preface
pp x-x

Introduction. - Disability and War: Becoming, Surviving, Managing
pp 1-28

Chapter 1 - The Recidivists: Healed Cranial Trauma from Conflicts in the Late Medieval Period
pp 29-56

Chapter 2 - Disability and Trauma in Battle in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas
pp 57-78

Chapter 3 - Hungry for Love: Disabling the Knightly Body and Mind through Starvation in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur
pp 79-98

Chapter 4 - A Vulnerable Military Masculinity: Soldiers and Disability in Late Medieval Pardon Letters (France, England, and the Low Countries)
pp 99-120

Chapter 5 - Traumatic Repercussions: Warfare and Disability in the French Countryside
pp 121-142

Chapter 6 - Investigating the Lifecycle of the Medieval English Soldier: Disability, Mental Trauma, and Medicine in Connection with War in Late Medieval English Records
pp 143-164

Chapter 7 - “What pain I suffered at that time, anyone can well imagine”: Experiences of War, Injury, and Pain in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland
pp 165-192

Chapter 8 - Mechanism/Organism: The Premodern Iron Hand as Conceptual Interface
pp 193-210

Chapter 9 - After Combat: War Wounds, Soldiers’ Benefits, and Dynastic Policies in the Burgundian-Habsburg Armies (1363–1506)
pp 211-238

Select Bibliography
pp 239-242

Index
pp 243-245

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