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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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Auteur principal: Wheatley, Edward (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:anglais
Publié: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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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Table des matières:
  • 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.

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