Understanding Disability Throughout History examines the voices of the past that have seldom had the opportunity to be heard by examining the hidden lives of people with disabilities before the concept of disability came into being in a cultural, social and political sense.

Christopher Crocker. Crip time in saga Iceland (in peer review).

Christopher Crocker, Eva Þórdís Ebenezarsdóttir, Sólveig Ólafsdóttir, Arndís Bergsdóttir, Haraldur Þór Hammer Haraldsson, Alice Bower, Yoav Tirosh, Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and James G. Rice. (2022). Multidisciplinary Approaches to Disability in Iceland (late 9th–early 20th century), Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 24(1): 151–164.

Christopher Crocker and Ármann Jakobsson. (2021). The Lion, the Dream, and the Poet: Mental Illnesses in Norway’s Medieval Royal Court. Disability in the medieval Nordic world, a special issue of the journal Mirator 20(2): 91–105.

Anna Katharina Heiniger. (2020). The Silenced Trauma in the Íslendingasögur, Gripla 31(1): 241–73.

Christopher Crocker. (2020). Narrating Blindness and Seeing Ocularcentrism in Þorsteins saga hvíta, Gripla 31(1): 21–46.

Ármann Jakobsson, Anna Katharina Heiniger, Christopher Crocker and Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir (2020). Disability Before Disability: Mapping the Uncharted in the Medieval Sagas, Scandinavian Studies 92(4): 440–60.

Yoav Tirosh. (2020). Deafness and Non-Speaking in Late Medieval Iceland (1200–1550), Viator 51(1): 311-44.

Christopher Crocker. (2019). Disability and Dreams in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas, Saga-Book 43(1): 37–58.

Christopher Crocker, Yoav Tirosh and Ármann Jakobsson. (2021). Disability in Medieval Iceland: Some methodological Concerns. In: Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and James G. Rice (editors), Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936 (pp. 12-28). Routledge.

Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir and Joe W. Walser III. (2021). Beneath the Surface: Disability in archaeological and osteobiographical contexts. In: Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and James G. Rice (editors), Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936 (pp. 29-45). Routledge.

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon. (2021). One Story, One Person: The Importance of micro/bio research for disability Studies. In: Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and James G. Rice (editors), Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936 (pp. 46-57). Routledge.

Guðrún V. Stefánsdóttir and Sólveig Ólafsdóttir. (2021). The Peculiar Attitude of the People. The life and social conditions of one ‘feebleminded’ girl in the early 20th century. In: Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and James G. Rice (ritstjórar), Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936 (pp. 58-75). Routledge.

Eva Þórdís Ebenezersdóttir and Sólveig Ólafsdóttir. (2021). From Life With a Different Body to Recreated Folklore of Accentuated Difference. Sigríður Benediksdóttir vs. Stutta–Sigga. In: Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and James G. Rice (editors), Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936 (pp. 76-94). Routledge.

Arndís Bergsdóttir. (2021). Dis-/abling Absence. Absencepresence as matters that matter. In: Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and James G. Rice (editors), Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936 (pp. 95-112). Routledge.

Christopher Crocker and Yoav Tirosh. (2021). Health, Healing, and the Social Body in Medieval Iceland. In: Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and James G. Rice (editors), Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936 (pp. 113-127). Routledge.

Ólafur Rastrick. (2021). Physical Impairment and the Spatial Dimensions of Everyday Life in Rural Households in Pre-industrial Iceland. In: Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and James G. Rice (editors), Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936 (pp. 128-145). Routledge.

Alice Bower (2021). Guðmundur Bergþórsson as Creator and Creation: A Folk Narrative Study of 17th Century Disabled Poet. In: Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and James G. Rice (editors), Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936 (bpp. 146-162). Routledge.

Haraldur Thor Hammer Haraldsson. (2021). Fictive Osteobiographical Narrative – The Missing Puzzle Pieces. In: Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and James G. Rice (editors), Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936 (pp. 163-180). Routledge.

Ármann Jakobsson. (2020). Morkinskinna (ca. 1220), In: Cameron Hunt McNabb (editor), Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe (pp. 393–410). Punctoom Books.

Ármann Jakobsson. (2020). Ólafs Saga Helga, from Heimskringla (ca. 1230), In: Cameron Hunt McNabb (editor), Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe (pp. 393–410). Punctoom Books.

Sólveig Ólafsdóttir. Power and Vulnerability. 101 Microhistories from the Periphery. University of Iceland.  Faculty of History and Philosophy (forthcoming).

Haraldur Thor Hammer Haraldsson. Memoirs of the different bodied dead: A bioarchaeological research approach to morphologically different Icelandic skeletal remains from the Settlement period to the late 19^th century. University of Iceland. Faculty of History and Philosophy (forthcoming). 

Christopher Crocker. (editor). (2020). Disability in the medieval Nordic world. Disability in the medieval Nordic world, a special issue of the journal Mirator 20(2).

Yoav Tirosh. (author). (2021). How Did Deaf and Non-Speaking people Communicate in Medieval Iceland? Medievalists.net.