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History of Disability: Medieval West
There is a medieval nursery rhyme,
I saw three headless [people] play at a ball,
A handless man served them all;
While three mouthless men lay and laughed,
Three legless [men] away them drew.
The fact that children might learn of disability in their crib and at play suggests how profoundly quotidian was medieval disability. However, disabilities in the Middle Ages are only now beginning to be ...
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