The Convent of the Infirmed: Teresa de Cartagena's Religious Model of Disability
This article presents common medieval constructions of disability: disability as connected to moral failing, as part of systems of charity, and as a test that produces virtue. Teresa de Cartagena, a fifteenth-century nun who, through illness, became deaf as a young adult (late teens- early twenties)...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2018]
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Journal of disability & religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 130-145 |
| Further subjects: | B
Disability
B Deafness B Spirituality B Medieval |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |