ISBN:
9780472117208
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 284 S.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
Corporealities: discourses of disability
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wheatley, Edward Stumbling blocks before the blind
DDC:
305.9/08109420902
Keywords:
Blind History To 1500
;
Blind History To 1500
;
Disability studies
;
Blind History
;
To 1500
;
France
;
Blind History
;
To 1500
;
Great Britain
;
Disability studies
;
Frankreich
;
England
;
Blinder Mensch
;
Alltag
;
Geschichte 500-1500
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31755
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31755
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