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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1. Verfasser: Wheatley, Edward (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]
Schriftenreihe:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.