Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind : Medieval Constructions of a Disability /
Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability.
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Cripping the middle ages, medievalizing disability theory
- Leading the blind : France versus England
- "Blind" jews and blind Christians : the metaphorics of marginalization
- Humoring the sighted : the comic embodiment of blindness
- Blinding, blindness, and sexual transgression
- Instructive interventions : miraculous chastisement and cure
- Medieval science and blindness : case studies of Jean L'Aveugle, Gilles Le Muisit, and John Audelay
- Afterword: the visibility of the blind in England and France.