ISBN:
9781350028722
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (204 pages)
Series Statement:
The Cultural Histories Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.9080902
Keywords:
People with disabilities-History-To 1500
;
Sociology of disability-History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Preface -- Introduction: Disabilities in Motion -- 1 Atypical Bodies: Seeking after Meaning in Physical Difference -- 2 Mobility Impairment: The Social Horizons of Disability in the Middle Ages -- 3 Chronic Pain and Illness: Reinstating Chronic-Crip Histories to Forge Affirmative Disability Futures -- 4 Blindness: Evolving Religious and Secular Constructions and Responses -- 5 Deafness: Reading Invisible Signs -- 6 Speech: Medieval Representations of Speech Impairments -- 7 Learning Difficulties: Ideas about Intellectual Diversity in Medieval Thought and Culture -- 8 Mental Health Issues: Folly, Frenzy, and the Family -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Imprint.
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