Introduction: Writing and Reading About Medieval Disfigurement
Patricia Skinner
Combining the insights of historians disability, forensic archaeologists, scholars literary and visual culture histories premodern medical practice with a renewed interrogation early medieval primary sources, aims this book are to document how acquired disfigurement is recorded across different geographical chronological contexts; examine genre text affects record injury responses it; determine specific health implications that such punishments had for individual her/his community; compare practical knowledge available in locations time deal aftercare injury, ask whether it was applied.