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