Stumbling blocks before the blind
Subtitle: medieval constructions of a disability
By: Edward Wheatley.
Series: Corporealities
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780472117208
Subjects: Blind -- France -- History -- To 1500; Blind -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500; Disability studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cripping the middle ages, medievalizing disability theory; title: Leading the blind : France versus England; title: "Blind" jews and blind Christians : the metaphorics of marginalization; title: Humoring the sighted : the comic embodiment of blindness; title: Blinding, blindness, and sexual transgression; title: Instructive interventions : miraculous chastisement and cure; title: Medieval science and blindness : case studies of Jean L'Aveugle, Gilles Le Muisit, and John Audelay; title: Afterword: the visibility of the blind in England and France.