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Contributors&#160;Danielle Allor,&#160;Maura Bailey,&#160;Lucy Barnhouse,&#160;Autumn Battista,&#160;Paul A. Broyles,&#160;Eliza Buhrer,&#160;M.W. Bychowski,&#160;Karen M. Cook,&#160;Ashley Corliss,&#160;Leigh Ann Craig,&#160;Emma E. Duncan,&#160;Will Eggers,&#160;Heide Estes,&#160;Joshua R. Eyler,&#160;Moira Fitzgibbons,&#160;Anne Galanaud,&#160;Pierre Galanaud,&#160;Rachael Gillibrand,&#160;Eammon Gosselin,&#160;Brandon W. Hawk,&#160;Ármann Jakobsson,&#160;Kolfinna Jónatansdóttir,&#160;Anne M. Koenig,&#160;Rebecca Laughlin,&#160;Kara Larson Maloney,&#160;Mandy Lowell Albert,&#160;Cameron Hunt McNabb,&#160;Sara Moller,&#160;Frank M. Napolitano,&#160;Sarah Edwards Obenauf,&#160;Leah Pope Parker,&#160;Tory V. Pearman,&#160;Alicia Protze,&#160;Alison Purnell,&#160;Will Rogers,&#160;Marit Ronen,&#160;Rose A. Sawyer,&#160;Julie Singer,&#160;Kisha G. Tracy,&#160;Kurt Schreyer,&#160;Shayne Simahk,&#160;Taylor Specker,&#160;Alyssa Stanton,&#160;Jeffery G. Stoyanoff,&#160;Kellyn WelchThe field of disability studies significantly contributes to contemporary discussions of the marginalization of and social justice for individuals with disabilities. However, what of disability in the past? The&#160;Medieval Disability Sourcebook&#160;explores what medieval texts have to say about disability, both in their own time and for the present.This interdisciplinary volume combines historical records, medical texts, and religious accounts of saints’ lives and miracles, as well as poetry, prose, drama, and manuscript images to demonstrate the varied and complicated attitudes medieval societies had about disability. Far from recording any monolithic understanding of disability in the Middle Ages, these contributions present a striking range of voices—to, from, and about those with disabilities—and such diversity only confirms how disability permeated (and permeates) every aspect of life.The Medieval Disability Sourcebook is designed for use inside the undergraduate or graduate classroom or by scholars interested in learning more about the field. Most texts are presented in modern English, though some are preserved in Middle English and many are given in side-by-side translations for greater study. Each entry is prefaced with an academic introduction to disability within the text as well as a bibliography for further study.TABLE OF CONTENTS I) Introduction By Cameron Hunt McNabb II) Historical and Medical Documents York Cause Paper E.92: Redyng c. Boton By Alison Purnell Mental Competency Inquisitions from Medieval England By Eliza Buhrer Nuremberg Town Records: Select Entries Pertaining to the Mad and Intellectually Disabled By Anne M. Koenig Tax Relief Requests from Medieval Dijon By Anne Galanaud and Pierre Galanaud Examining for Leprosy in the Fifteenth Century By Lucy Barnhouse Arzneibuch, “On Madness,” Ortolf of Baierland By Anne M. Koenig III) Religious Texts Biblical Excerpts Selected Episodes on Healing and Disability from the Vulgate Bible – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John By Will Eggers Miracles in Apocryphal Infancy Narratives By Brandon W. Hawk  Biblical Commentary Catholic Homilies 1.10, Ælfric of Eynsham By Brandon W. Hawk The City of God against the Pagans, Augustine of Hippo By Leah Pope Parker  Miracle Accounts A Miracle of Thomas Becket: De puero syntectino (Concerning a boy suffering from a wasting disease), William of Canterbury By Rose A. Sawyer Njáls Saga By Kolfinna Jónatansdóttir The Life and Passion of William of Norwich, Thomas of Monmouth By Sarah Edwards Obenauf Testimony from the Canonization Proceedings of Charles of Blois By Leigh Ann Craig On the Miracle of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Bernard Gui By Leigh Ann Craig Saints’ Vitae The Prose Life of Cuthbert, Bede By Marit Ronen The Life of St. Margaret of Antioch By Leah Pope Parker Life of Mary of Oegines By Kisha G. Tracy and Alicia Protze IV) Poetry Bisclavret, Marie de France By Kisha G. Tracy The Book of Hope, Alain Chartier By Julie Singer The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer The Merchant’s Tale By Moira Fitzgibbons The Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale  By Paul A. Broyles The Wife of Bath’s Portrait, Prologue, and Tale By Tory V. Pearman Dame Sirith By Danielle Allor Tale of Constance, John Gower By Will Rogers Complaint, Thomas Hoccleve By Will Rogers Sir Orfeo By Joshua R. Eyler and Emma E. Duncan V) Prose The Book of Margery Kempe By M. W. Bychowski Ecclesiastical History, Bede Menstruation, Infirmity, Religious Observance, and The Miracles of King Oswald By Heide Estes Physical Disability, Muteness, Pregnancy, Possession, and Alcoholism By Maura Bailey, Autumn Battista, Ashley Corliss, Eammon Gosselin, Rebecca Laughlin, Sara Moller, Shayne Simahk, Taylor Specker, Alyssa Stanton, Kellyn Welch, and Kisha G. Tracy The Lancelot-Grail Cycle Evadeam, the Dwarf Knight By Kara Larson Maloney Morkinskinna By Ármann Jakobsson Heimskringla, Snorri Sturluson Ólafs saga helga By Ármann Jakobsson The Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson By Kolfinna Jónatansdóttir VI) Drama The Chester Cycle Cure of the Blind Man By Kurt Schreyer Christ and the Leper By Kurt Schreyer The York Cycle  Entry into Jerusalem By Frank M. Napolitano The N-Town Plays The Nativity By Jeffery G. Stoyanoff Croxton Play of the Sacrament By Cameron Hunt McNabb Lippijn By Mandy Lowell Albert VII) Images The Smithfield Decretals By Rachael Gillibrand Visible and Invisible Impairments in Images of Medieval Musicians By Karen M. Cook ABOUT THE EDITORCameron Hunt McNabb&#160;is Assoc. Professor of English at Southeastern University. Her primary research interests include disability studies and early drama, and she has published in numerous journals, including&#160;Early Theatre, Neophilologus, Studies in Philology,&#160;and&#160;Pedagogy.&#160;Her chapter “Staging Disability in Medieval Drama” is forthcoming in the&#160;Ashgate Research Companion to Medieval Disability Studies&#160;(Routledge, 2018). She is a strong advocate for undergraduate research, and she and her students have contributed two entries to the&#160;Medieval Disability&#160;Glossary.