Performing Disability in Medieval and Early Modern Britain / / Mark C. Chambers.
Performing Disability is a landmark examination of performance history in the medieval and early modern era. Seeking to provide a fact-based assessment of disabled performance, this survey examines the nature and socialization of disabled performers in the medieval and early Tudor periods. Using Rec...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2024] ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early Social Performance
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Transcriptions and Translations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. “The number of fuillis ar infinite”: Framing “Foolery” as Disability in Premodern Performance
- Chapter 2. “All Fools to Christ”: The Patronage of Fools in English Monasteries
- Chapter 3. Blyndharpours and Kakeharpours: Accommodating Blindness in Premodern Performance
- Chapter 4. Size and Shape as Aspects of Early Performance
- Chapter 5. Orthopaedic Variance as Performance
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index