Talked a bit about disabled veterans coming home to England after the Hundred Years War today. Interesting stuff.
No concept of support for vets, so they turned to begging. Laws against begging passed in this time.
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Disabled people in medieval history get ignored but it was a fact of life and war then as it is now.
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