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Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind : Medieval Constructions of a Disability / Edward Wheatley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Corporealities: discourses of disability | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015Copyright date: ©[2010]Description: 1 online resource (298 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472120857
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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.
Summary: Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability.
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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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Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability.

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