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.

Sábháilte in:
Sonraí bibleagrafaíochta
Príomhchruthaitheoir: Wheatley, Edward (Údar)
Formáid: Leictreonach Ríomhleabhar
Teanga:Béarla
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]
Sraith:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Ábhair:
Rochtain ar líne:Full text available:
Clibeanna: Cuir clib leis
Níl clibeanna ann, Bí ar an gcéad duine le clib a chur leis an taifead seo!
Clár na nÁbhar:
  • 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.