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Based on rich documentation this work proposes an history of disabled people experiences, theorized as lived disability that allows us to rethink the place of the (disabled) body in the Christian thoughts. It also offers a sensitive history of the clerics' bodies.
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Preface, Introduction: A Formal Dialogue, Chapter 1: Legal Origins of the Prohibition on Clerical Disability, Chapter 2: Aetiologies of Impairment: Congenital, Geriatric, and Acquired Conditions, Chapter 3: Joining the Clergy, Chapter 4: Staying in the Clergy, Chapter 5: Leaving the Clergy, Conclusion, List of works cited for each chapter
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Ninon Dubourg is a doctor in Medieval History of the University of Paris Diderot, now a post-doctoral researcher at the Transitions Unit of the University of Liège (Belgium). She is in charge of the research blog
History of Disease, Disability and Medicine in Medieval Europe and the co-organiser of the EHESS' monthly seminar
"Construire une histoire du handicap et de la surdité au travers des siècles" (Building a history of disability and deafness through the centuries) with Fab-rice Bertin (EHESS) and Gildas Brégain (Rennes, CNRS) (2021-2022). She is a foreign associate member of the research network Homo Debilis at the Bremen University and a member of the Re-search Group
Handicap et sociétés of the Réseau Jeunes chercheurs Santé et Sociétés at the EHESS.
