“People with physical and mental impairments (as we understand them) were no less common in early modern Europe than they are today…So why the continuing silence, particularly in popular histories of the renaissance?” Until relatively recently, histories of renaissance Europe focussed on men who were white, cis-gender and usually heterosexual. Even more narrowly, those… Continue Reading Silent Histories: Writing Disability Back into Renaissance History 
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