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Stumbling blocks before the blind : medieval constructions of a disability
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Stumbling blocks before the blind : medieval constructions of a disability / Edward Wheatley.
ISBN
9780472117208 (cloth : alk. paper)
0472117203 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010.
Physical Description
xiii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 21, 2010
Series
Corporealities: discourses of disability
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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