id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt t148ff38p0g Yvonne S. Mikuljan Lichama and Limu: Approaches to Impairment in Anglo-Saxon England 2015 .txt text/plain 271 7 13 Drawing on modern disability theories, the chapters of this dissertation examine the material evidence, religious discourses, and literary representations of impairment and disability in order to highlight the dominant cultural perceptions concerning impairment and the treatment of people with impairment and disabilities. These prejudiced views of the past appear in modern histories of disability and have perpetuated the popular assumptions that illnesses and impairments were believed to be the result of sin or supernatural forces and that people with disabilities were marginalized, abused, and oppressed by the their societies. cache/t148ff38p0g.txt txt/t148ff38p0g.txt