Disability history as a field of study tends to look towards disability studies. Yet as the field is relatively new part of historiography by providing a human centred approach, this allows there to be the ability to look beyond ‘othering’. Disability in the Early Modern Period was not the same as what ‘we’ from a post-modern perspective have come to know but attitudes towards disability can be interpreted from ‘everyday’ objects and writing. This is apparent in literature sources as well as medical history based in ideas round the body even in the treatment of physical deformities and mental differences. This page will explore how renaissance ideas of medicine influenced the ostracisation and other characteristics for the lives of disabled individuals.