Stumbling blocks before the blind : medieval constructions of a disability

Stumbling blocks before the blind medieval constructions of a disability

Bold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings of literary texts. Absolutely new in content and significantly innovative in methodology and argument, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind offe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wheatley, Edward (-)
Autor Corporativo: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) publisher (publisher)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor, Michigan : The University of Michigan Press 2010.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Corporealities.
Materias:
Blind > France > History > To 1500.
Blind > Great Britain > History > To 1500.
Disability studies.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009689912806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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