"Completely Healed": Miracles, Cures, and Constructions of Disability in the Old Norse Icelandic Sagas of Bishops

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Van Deusen, Natalie M

• SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: The proposed research project focuses on constructions of disability in the Old Norse­Icelandic Sagas of Bishops (byskupa sögur). Research for this project will take place over a two­year period. The first year(2020­21) will be dedicated to data collection, consultation, broad contextual reading, development of the theoretical framework, and excerpting of all examples of disability and impairment in the Sagas of Bishops. The second year (2021­22) will be spent doing a more focused analysis of examples of disability and impairment in the Sagas of Bishops, with particular emphasis on the role of gender in constructions of disability.

• Date created

  2020-02-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • IDG
  • Insight Development Grant
  • SSHRC
  • Medieval
  • Miracles
  • Disability
  • Impairment
  • Iceland
  • Hagiography
  • Madness
  • Women
  • Cures
  • Canonization
  • Religious Studies
  • Gender Issues
  • Mental Health
  • 1000AD-1550AD
  • Scandinavia
  • Western Europe
  • Iceland
  • Norway
  • Italy

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-9cxp-ty08

• License

  ©️Van Deusen, Natalie M. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2024.