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- Title
Crutch art painting in the Middle Ages as orthopaedic heritage (part II: the peg leg, the bent-knee peg and the beggar).
- Authors
Hernigou, Philippe
- Abstract
Little of historical value about crutches can be ascertained before the Middle Ages. In contrast, the Middle Ages offer many examples for the study of crutches. Even if no medical report can be found, the immense patronage of the Church, encouraging artists to portray the saints and their miracles, has left great masterpieces that drew people with crutches. Pictures and the history of medieval conceptions of disability appear to provide an interesting chronicle of surgery of the peg leg and the bent-knee peg among the representations of cripples and beggars.
- Subjects
CRUTCHES; BONE surgery; PEOPLE with disabilities; BEGGARS; MIDDLE Ages
- Publication
International Orthopaedics, 2014, Vol 38, Issue 7, p1535
- ISSN
0341-2695
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00264-014-2278-1