And finally Julia Gebke, speaking more on the project on Elisabethians' hospital in Vienna: "When bodies meet text. Searching for the female patients of the Hospital of the Elisabethians in Eighteenth Century Vienna" #ESSHC

And now shifting from religious sources to bioarchaeology! Hannah Grabmayer "Disability in Bioarchaeology - Exploring disability and the care for the disabled in 18th century Vienna on the basis of the human skeletal remains from the patients' cemetery of the Elisabethians' hospital" #ESSHC

Now Jenni Kuuliala "Malevolent magic as a cause for 'infirmity': Studying disability in the documents of the Roman inquisition" #ESSHC

Next up Rosamund Oates "Seeing through Deaf eyes: Researching Early Modern deafness" #ESSHC

And now for our companion session "Methodological Challenges in Disability History II: Tracing Early Modern Disability". We begin with Riikka Miettinen "Experiences of disability in Early modern Swedish sources- Opportunities and gaps" #ESSHC

And now Kofi Asihene "History, Disability, and Ghana: examining the concept of dis/ability in Early Modern Ghana" #ESSHC

My paper (coming up!) "The Disabling Sea? Early modern seafarers and a transnational-environmental history of impairment, difference and disorder" #ESSHC

Ready for our early morning session at #ESSHC 2025 "Methodological Challenges in Disability History I: Conceptualising pre- and early modern disability"