Approaching facial difference: past and present

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Introduction: situating the different face / Patricia Skinner and Emily Cock -- Dis/enabling courtesy and chivalry in the Middle English and early modern Gawain romances and ballads / Bonnie Millar -- 'A great blemish to her beauty': female facial disfigurement in early modern England / Michelle Webb -- Does talking about disfigurement risk perpetuating stigma? / Jane Frances -- Hair loss as facial disfigurement in Ancient Rome? / Jane Draycott -- Portrait? Likeness? Composite? Facial difference in forensic art / Kathryn Smith -- From 'staring' to 'not caring': Development of psychological growth and wellbeing among adults with cleft lip and palate / Patricia Neville, Andrea Waylen, Sara Ryan and Aidan Searle -- Making up the female face: pain and imagination in the music videos of CocoRosie / Morna Laing -- Archaeological facial depiction for people from the past with facial differences / Caroline Wilkinson -- "Trotule (trotula) puts many things on to decorate and embellish the face but I intend solely to remove infection": L'Abbe Poutrel and his Chirurgerie c.1300 / Theresa Tyers -- Disrupting our sense of the past: medical photographs that push interpreters to the limits of historical analysis / Jason Bate.