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Representing Disability in Museums
#Down and Out and Disabled in the Middle Ages? : edieval Attitudes, Modern Assumptions and Public Dis/ability History
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With a focus on visual representations this paper introduces current research of the interdisciplinary research group homo debilis at the University of Bremen. When it comes to exploring medieval dis/ability, specific challenges such as fragmentary sources, vague terminologies and varieties of discourses have to be dealt with. A selection of main results of our research concerning premodern concep tions of dis/ability will be presented. Some of these findings prove both scientific and popular assumptions of medieval attitudes to be in part anachronistic. By curating an exhibition in 2012 the homo debilis-group disseminated its approaches and conclusions to a broader public in order to challenge common clichés. This early experiment of public dis/ability history was based on the cooperation of contributors with and without disability. Following the principle of accessibility it addressed a heterogeneous audience. Drawing on this experience I would like to reflect, from a medievalist’s perspective, on how to communicate a fresh and more complete history of medieval dis/ability.
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