The Venerable Bede and Disability in the Middle Ages

The Wheelchair Historian
4 min readJan 31, 2021

Welcome to my latest blog post. Recently, I have been discussing the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Specifically, their beliefs surrounding disabled people and their abilities. It is clear that disabled people were not deemed to be useless. While I would love to go on and on about various ancient civilisations for a long time, I won’t. I feel that would discriminate against other time periods and we…

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The Wheelchair Historian

Wheelchair user with an interest in history, so I created a blog about history, with a particular emphasis on disability.