Thinking Together About Medieval Disability
4 April - 30 May 2025
The Wardlaw Museum Research Studio
University of St Andrews
Credits
This exhibit is the product of collaboration between students and staff in the School of History at the University of St Andrews, the St Andrews Centre for Archaeology, Technology, and History, the research team of the AHRC-funded project “Word of Mouth: Embodied Stories of Premodern Women at Work,” and a wider team of historians, archaeologists, forensic artists, medical professionals, and graphic artists at many other universities. Our collaboration is ongoing.
St Andrews
Centre for Archaeology, Technology, & History (Alison Beach, Eleanor Farber, Sally Mubarak)
ME3106 History & Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism Students, Candlemas 2024 (Harry Banham, Maloy Basinger, Ryley Bucknall, Charlotte Charlton, Callum Friel, Eva Gomez, Lucy Hindle, Matthew Kern, Kennedy Kersten, Amelie Logue, Ethan Philips, Sylvia Rutherford, Catherine Seale, Zoe Zimmer)
ME3106 History & Archaeology of Medieval Monasticism Students, Candlemas 2025 (Caitlyn Hasty-Eby, Aijoon Lee, Charles MacBeth, Panos Panagiotis, Lilliana Mitchell, Freya Norris, Rachel Shepard, Kristen Tresch)
St Andrews Disabled Students Network (Orla Hamill, Jay Martin, Talia Porter, Elise Siddiqui)
History & Archaeology Student Lab Team 2024-2025 (Greysen Braley, Abigail Cassity, Victoria Fletcher, Lucy Hindle, Kennedy Kersten, Amelie Logue, William McKay-Smith, Alison More, Willa Stonecipher)
History & Archaeology Lab Alumni/ae (Mikala Campbell, Alexander MAx Dyer, Elise Goodwin, Christine Masternak, Esteban Merkt-Navedo, Enrico Occhini, Patsy Wardlaw, Eugenia Yatsenko​
St Andrews Rapid Prototyping Centre (Jens Kellner)
Università Torino
Rosa Boano (osteology and palaeopathology), Beatrice Demarchi (palaeoproteomics), Sarah Sandron (osteology)
University College Dublin
Anita Radini (dental calculus analysis; experimental archaeology)
University of Aberdeen
Kate Britton (stable isotope analysis), Orsolya Czére (stable isotope analysis)
University of Bonn
Alice Toso (bioarchaeology), Alessia Bareggi (bioarchaeology)
University of Dundee
Tobias Houlton (forensic imaging), Waleed Mohammed (radiology), Alan Webster (radiology), Sang hun Yu (digital animation)
University of Hamburg
Carolin Gluchowski (graphic novel design)
University of Oxford
Sigrid Koerner (graphic art and graphic novel design)
University of Southampton
Stephanie Wright (bioarchaeology of disability; fictive narrative)
Stanford University
Amy Ladd (orthopaedic surgeon)
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Many thanks also to archaeologists David Baker (Oxford), Richard Carlton (The Archaeological Practice, Newcastle), Tom Perrett (Higgins Bedford Museum), and the Vicar and Wardens of Elstow Abbey Church.