Carly Suri

Qualifications:

PhD: University of Warwick 2025-2028 Thesis Title: Disability, Sin and Redemption: The Representation and Experience of Lameness in Reformation England c.1500-1660.

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

BA History and French: University of Warwick 2006-2011

Contact:

Carly.Suri@warwick.ac.uk

My Research

My PhD project, provisionally entitled 'Disability, Sin and Redemption: The Representation and Experience of Lameness in Reformation England c.1500-1660', explores the nature of what it meant to be 'lame' in the past. 'The Lame' occupy a constant, yet underrepresented space in Reformation England. 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 within the new spiritual landscape of the Reformation. 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