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First edition
ISBN:
9781350028746
Serie:
Cultural histories series 2
Inhalt:
List of Illustrations -- Notes of Contributors -- Series Preface -- Introduction : Disabilities in Motion / Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University, USA, Tory V. Pearman, Miami University, Hamilton, USA, and Joshua R. Eyler, Rice University, USA -- Chapter 1. Atypical Bodies : Seeking after Meaning in Physical Difference / John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State University, USA -- Chapter 2. Mobility Impairments : The Social Horizons of Disability in the Middle Ages / Richard H. Godden, Louisiana State University, USA -- Chapter 3. Chronic Pain and Illness : Reinstating Crip-Chronic Histories to Forge Affirmative Disability Futures / Alicia Spencer-Hall, Queen Mary, University of London, UK -- Chapter 4. Blindness : Evolving Religious and Secular Constructions and Responses / Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago, USA -- Chapter 5. Deafness : Reading Invisible Signs / Julie Singer, Washington University in St. Louis, USA -- Chapter 6. Speech : Medieval Representations of Speech Impairments / Kisha G. Tracy, Fitchburg State University, USA -- Chapter 7. Learning Difficulties : Ideas about Intellectual Diversity in Medieval Thought and Culture / Eliza Buhrer, Colorado School of Mines, USA -- Chapter 8. Mental Health Issues : Folly, Frenzy, and the Family / Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College, USA -- Author and Editor Biographies -- References -- Index.
Inhalt:
The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender, class, and race, among other dimensions of human difference. Ideas of disability in courtly romance, saints' lives, chronicles, sagas, secular lyrics, dramas, and pageants demonstrate the nuanced, and sometimes contradictory, relationship between cultural constructions of disability and the lived experience of impairment. An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students of history, literature, visual art, cultural studies, and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages explores themes and topics such as atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.5040/9781350028746
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