Stumbling blocks before the blind : : medieval constructions of a disability / / Edward Wheatley.
Bold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings of literary texts. Absolutely new in content and significantly innovative in methodology and argument, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind offe...
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| Superior document: | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability |
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| Place / Publishing House: | ©2010 Ann Arbor, Michigan : : The University of Michigan Press,, 2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Corporealities.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of 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.