Disability and War in the Late Middle Ages

Ninon Dubourg is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow based at the University of Cologne. She studies physical and mental disability, as well as old age, among lay and clerical individuals in late medieval Europe.Christophe Masson is a Permanent Researcher for the Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) in Belgium. His work addresses the social, cultural, institutional, and technical dimensions of late medieval warfare.

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction. "Disability and War: Becoming, Surviving, Managing" by Ninon Dubourg and Christophe MassonChapter 1. "The Recidivists: Healed Cranial Trauma from Conflicts in the Late Medieval Period" by Christopher J. KnüselChapter 2. "Disability and Trauma in Battle in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas" by Yoav TiroshChapter 3. "Hungry for Love: Disabling the Knightly Body and Mind through Starvation in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur" by Kristina HildebrandChapter 4. "A Vulnerable Military Masculinity: Soldiers and Disability in Late Medieval Pardon Letters (France, England, and the Low Countries)" by Quentin VerreyckenChapter 5. "Traumatic Repercussions: Warfare and Disability in the French Countryside" by Aleksandra PfauChapter 6. "Investigating the Lifecycle of the Medieval English Soldier: Disability, Mental Trauma, and Medicine in Connection with War in Late Medieval English Records" by Wendy J. TurnerChapter 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" by Bianca FrohneChapter 8. "Mechanism/Organism: The Premodern Iron Hand as Conceptual Interface" by John GagnéChapter 9. "After Combat: War Wounds, Soldiers’ Benefits, and Dynastic Policies in the Burgundian–Habsburg Armies (1363–1506)" by Michael DepreterSelect BibliographyIndex