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Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind : Medieval Constructions of a Disability /

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Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability.

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Hoofdauteur: Wheatley, Edward (Auteur)
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]
Reeks:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Onderwerpen:
Disability studies.
Blind.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Études sur le handicap.
Blind > Great Britain > History > To 1500.
Blind > France > History > To 1500.
Great Britain.
France.
History.
Electronic books.
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