Why Study Disability and Disease with Christina Lee
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Channel: University of Nottingham · 2016 · Education
Dr Christina Lee, Associate Professor of Viking Studies in the School of English, looks at how disability and disease were viewed by Christians during the Middle Ages. She uses evidence that comes from archaeology and from literary texts to reveal a rather surprising picture: the disabled were cared for by society and there was an assumption that the prayers of the impaired and weak had a special efficacy. Other videos you may wish to watch include; Why Study Norse Religion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmkenZXufz0 Why Study Women in the Anglo Saxon Church https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew2OtxwcWgs Why Study Popular Religion in the Middle Ages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yoZlz-ruOg Why Study the Impact of Heresy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UmmwKj0oQA Why Study Heresy in the Later Middle Ages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky4jIVQ2_9M
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