Disability in the Middle Ages
Subtitle: reconsiderations and reverberations
By: [edited by] Joshua Eyler
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780754668220; 9781409402954
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: breaking boundaries, building bridges / Joshua R. Eyler; title: 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; title: "O sweete venym queynte!": pregnancy and the disabled female body in The Merchant's tale / Tory Vandeventer Pearman; title: Playing by ear: compensation, reclamation, and prosthesis in fourteenth-century song / Julie Singer; title: Representations of disability in the thirteenth-century Miracles de Saint Louis / Hannah Skoda; title: The exemplary blindness of Francis of Assisi / Scott Wells; title: Experience, authority, and the mediation of deafness: Chaucer's Wife of Bath / Edna Edith Sayers; title: Protecting or restraining? madness as a disability in late medieval France / Alexsandra Pfau; title: Representations of disability: the medieval literary tradition of the fisher king / Kisha G. Tracy; title: "Ther is moore mysshapen amonges thise beggeres": discourses of disability in Piers Plowman / Jennifer M. Gianfalla; title: Kingly impairments in Anglo-Saxon literature: God's curse and God's blessing / Beth Tovey; title: Difference and disability: on the logic of naming in the Icelandic sagas / John P. Sexton; title: Henryson's textual and narrative prosthesis onto Chaucer's corpus: Cresseid's leprosy and her Schort conclusioun / Andrew Higl; title: A medieval king "disabled" by an early modern construct: a contextual examination of Richard III / Abigail Elizabeth Comber; title: Aging women and disability in early modern Spanish literature / Encarnación Juárez-Almendros.