Reforming Sensory Disability in Early Modern England

Chronicling England’s infamous rejection of an established faith tradition – the Protestant Reformation – and its reverberating effects on societal interpretations of sensory disability, Mary Lutze offers a new epistemology for understanding early modern perspectives of the disabled. In addition to illuminating the historical treatment of disabled bodies in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, Lutze’s study clarifies an origin for the inherited stigma towards nonnormative bodies toda...