Women and disability in medieval literature / Tory Vandeventer Pearman.
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| Superior document: | The new middle ages |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Middle Ages.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 206 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : medieval authoritative discourse and the disabled female body
- (Dis)pleasure and (dis)ability : the topos of reproduction in Dame Sirith and the "Merchant's tale"
- Physical education : excessive wives and bodily punishment in the Book of the knight and The wife of Bath's prologue
- Refiguring disability : deviance, punishment, and the supernatural in Bisclavret, Sir Launfal, and the Testament of Cresseid
- Embodied transcendence : disability and the procreative body in The book of Margery Kempe.