Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind : Medieval Constructions of a Disability /
Wheatley, Edward,
Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind : Medieval Constructions of a Disability / Edward Wheatley. - 1 online resource (298 pages). - Corporealities: discourses of disability . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability.
9780472120857
Disability studies.
Blind.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--People with Disabilities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
Études sur le handicap.
Disability studies.
Blind--History--Great Britain--To 1500.
Blind--History--France--To 1500.
Great Britain.
France.
History.
Electronic books.
Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind : Medieval Constructions of a Disability / Edward Wheatley. - 1 online resource (298 pages). - Corporealities: discourses of disability . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability.
9780472120857
Disability studies.
Blind.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--People with Disabilities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations.
Études sur le handicap.
Disability studies.
Blind--History--Great Britain--To 1500.
Blind--History--France--To 1500.
Great Britain.
France.
History.
Electronic books.