Stumbling blocks before the blind : medieval constructions of a disability / Edward Wheatley.

  • Wheatley, Edward.
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[2010], ©2010
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010], ©2010.

Physical description

xiii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
    QC.41.AA2
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  • 9780472117208
  • 0472117203