Lives of Deprivation or Lives of Industry: Possible Cerebral Palsy on the Mary Rose. (April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Drew, Rose
• Is Part Of: Medieval history journal. Volume 18:Number 1(2015:Apr.)
• Page Start: 25
• Page End: 45
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Subjects: Middle Ages -- Periodicals; Middeleeuwen; 909.0705
• DOI: 10.1177/0971945814565737
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0971-9458

Abstract

Contemporary historical and medical writing on impairment in the medieval period claim the disabled were blighted evidence of God's disfavour. Such opinions are often tautologies, unsupported by fourteenth-century primary sources such as Piers Plowman and Lollard writings. Vagrancy proclamations (1495), and dissolution of monasteries from 1538 encouraged self-sufficiency. Impairment may not have equalled poverty.