Disability in the Middle Ages : reconsiderations and reverberations /

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What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such standard medieval texts a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Eyler, Joshua
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.
Temas:
To 1500
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
People with disabilities in literature.
People with disabilities > History > To 1500.
Literature, Medieval.
Medicine, Medieval.
Disabled Persons > history
Literature, Medieval
History, Medieval
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Littérature médiévale.
Médecine médiévale.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Medicine, Medieval
People with disabilities in literature
People with disabilities
Behinderung.
Motiv.
handicapé > Moyen-Âge.
Personer med funktionsnedsättning i litteraturen > medeltiden.
Personer med funktionsnedsättning > historia > medeltiden.
Litteratur > historia > medeltiden.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: breaking boundaries, building bridges / Joshua R. Eyler
  • Disability and the suppression of historical identity: rediscovering the professional backgrounds of the blind residents of the Hôpital des Quinze-vingts / Mark P. O'Tool
  • "O sweete venym queynte!": pregnancy and the disabled female body in The Merchant's tale / Tory Vandeventer Pearman
  • Playing by ear: compensation, reclamation, and prosthesis in fourteenth-century song / Julie Singer
  • Representations of disability in the thirteenth-century Miracles de Saint Louis / Hannah Skoda
  • The exemplary blindness of Francis of Assisi / Scott Wells
  • Experience, authority, and the mediation of deafness: Chaucer's Wife of Bath / Edna Edith Sayers
  • Protecting or restraining? madness as a disability in late medieval France / Alexsandra Pfau
  • Representations of disability: the medieval literary tradition of the fisher king / Kisha G. Tracy
  • "Ther is moore mysshapen amonges thise beggeres": discourses of disability in Piers Plowman / Jennifer M. Gianfalla
  • Kingly impairments in Anglo-Saxon literature: God's curse and God's blessing / Beth Tovey
  • Difference and disability: on the logic of naming in the Icelandic sagas / John P. Sexton
  • Henryson's textual and narrative prosthesis onto Chaucer's corpus: Cresseid's leprosy and her Schort conclusioun / Andrew Higl
  • A medieval king "disabled" by an early modern construct: a contextual examination of Richard III / Abigail Elizabeth Comber
  • Aging women and disability in early modern Spanish literature / Encarnación Juárez-Almendros.

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