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

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Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wheatley, Edward (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]
Series:Corporealities.
Subjects:
Blind > France > History > To 1500.
Blind > Great Britain > History > To 1500.
Disability studies.
Études sur le handicap.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.
Blind.
France.
Great Britain.
To 1500
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.