The Accessible Medievalist

Episode 5: Saint Bartholomew’s Disability Miracles


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In this episode, the Accessible Medievalist explores the disability miracles in the Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew’s Church, which details the legendary founding of London’s oldest surviving parish church and hospital in 1123CE. 

Topics: physical disability, mental disability, caretakers, hospitals, literary analysis, hagiography, saints

Bibliography:

Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness. Eds. Adele E. Clarke, et al. Duke University Press, 2010.

Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew’s Church. Translated and edited by Humphrey H. King and William Barnard. Rahere’s Garden, 2005. https://www.raheresgarden.org/Book-of-the-Foundation.pdf.

Buterin, Toni, Amir Muzur, and Bojan Glažar. “Saints and ‘Possession’: A Case Review Bordering Ethnopsychiatry and Cultural Diversity.” Journal of Religion and Health 60 (2021): 1116–1124.

Johnson, Ruth W., Joan S. Tilghman, Lorrie R. Davis-Dick, and Barbara Hamilton-Faison. “A Historical Overview of Spirituality in Nursing.” ABNF Journal 17, no. 2 (2006): 60-62.

Parkinson, H. “Patron Saints,” The Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company, 1911. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11562a.htm.

Tracy, Kisha G. “Middle English Saints Healing, Catalyzing, and Experiencing Disability.” Forthcoming in Oxford Handbooks of Disability and Literatures in English. Oxford University Press. Eds. Tory Pearman, Rick Godden, Leah Pope Parker.

Tracy, Kisha G. ​​“Speech: Medieval Representations of Speech Impairments.” In Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages. Eds. Jonathan Hsy, Joshua Eyler, and Tory Pearman Bloomsbury: 2020. 99-113.

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Music - Medieval Theme 01 by Strobotone is licensed under a Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

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The Accessible MedievalistBy Kisha Tracy