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Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
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Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
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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 that the study of head and facial
injuries can offer a new contribution to the history of early
medieval medicine and culture, as well as exploring the language of
violence and social interactions. Despite the prevalence of warfare
and conflict in early medieval society, and a veritable industry of
medieval historians studying it, there has in fact been very little
attention paid to the subject of head wounds and facial damage in
the course of war and/or punitive justice. The impact of acquired
disfigurement -for the individual, and for her or his family and
community-is barely registered, and only recently has there been
any attempt to explore the question of how damaged tissue and bone
might be treated medically or surgically. In the wake of new work
on disability and the emotions in the medieval period, this study
documents how acquired disfigurement is recorded across different
geographical and chronological contexts in the period.
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