Women and disability in medieval literature
By: Tory Vandeventer Pearman
Series: The new middle ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780230105119
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : medieval authoritative discourse and the disabled female body; title: (Dis)pleasure and (dis)ability : the topos of reproduction in Dame Sirith and the "Merchant's tale"; title: Physical education : excessive wives and bodily punishment in the Book of the knight and The wife of Bath's prologue; title: Refiguring disability : deviance, punishment, and the supernatural in Bisclavret, Sir Launfal, and the Testament of Cresseid; title: Embodied transcendence : disability and the procreative body in The book of Margery Kempe.