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Illness and Authority : Disability in the Life and Lives of Francis of Assisi /
"Illness and Authority examines the lived experience and early stories about St. Francis of Assisi through the lens of disability studies. This new approach re-centres Francis's illnesses and infirmities and highlights how they became barriers to wielding traditional modes of masculine aut...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2020]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction
- Francis overdiagnosed and undiagnosed
- Recentring illness and infirmity in Francis' lived experience
- Et licet infirmus fuisset semper : Testimonies of illness in the early Lives of Francis
- Disability and tensions in Francis' lived experience
- The hagiographers' search for meaning
- On disability, power, and gender : a speculative conclusion
- Postscript : On the Importance of disability as a category of analysis
- Appendix. Recentring illness : A revised chronology of Francis' life.