TY - BOOK AU - Wheatley,Edward ED - Project Muse. TI - Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind : : Medieval Constructions of a Disability / T2 - Corporealities: discourses of disability SN - 9780472120857 PY - 2010///] CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - Disability studies KW - fast KW - Blind KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - People with Disabilities KW - bisacsh KW - Minority Studies KW - Discrimination & Race Relations KW - Études sur le handicap KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - France KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 N2 - Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/32738/ ER -