Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Her research interests lie in the intersections of disability, medicine and religion in the thirteenth century. She has published articles in Franciscan Studies, Florilegium and the Journal of Ecclesiastical History. She is currently completing a monograph on the disabilities of St. Francis of Assisi and working on a large research project that explores the interconnections between people and texts in the faculties of medicine and theology at Paris between 1200 and 1250. This article emerges from that latter research project.