Carly Suri

Qualifications:

PhD: University of Warwick 2025-2028 Thesis Title: Lameness in Early Modern England c.1500-1700.

MA Early Modern History: University of Birmingham 2023-2025 Dissertation Title: The Representation of Bodily Dysregulation in the Books of Homilies.

PGCE (History): University of Warwick 2012-2013

BA History and French: University of Warwick 2006-2011

Contact:

Carly.Suri@warwick.ac.uk

My Research

My PhD project, provisionally entitled 'Lameness in Early Modern England c.1500-1700', explores the nature of what it meant to be 'lame' in the past. 'The Lame' occupy a constant, yet underrepresented space. They are always in peripheral vision, but rarely observed directly. My research will engage with a variety of printed literature, hospital records and personal sources to explore agency, identity and self-consciousness to consider how lameness was pathologized, confessionalised, and personalised. I will argue that in understanding lameness, we must move beyond the use of constructivist models of disability and instead engage dialogically with the ways in which lameness 'speaks' across society, medicine and religion.

Supervisors: Professor Peter Marshall and Dr Sophie Mann