Disability in the Middle Ages: reconsiderations and reverberations
Introduction: breaking boundaries, building bridges / Joshua R. Eyler -- 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 -- "O sweete venym queynte!": pregnancy a...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham [u.a.]
Ashgate
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Eyler, Joshua R., Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations] (2011) (Abreu-Ferreira, Darlene)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Middle Ages
/ Literature
/ Handicap (Motif)
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B People with disabilities History To 1500 B Literature, Medieval History and criticism B Literature, Medieval History and criticism B People with disabilities in literature B People with disabilities History To 1500 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Introduction: breaking boundaries, building bridges / Joshua R. Eyler -- 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 -- "O sweete venym queynte!": pregnancy and the disabled female body in The Merchant's tale / Tory Vandeventer Pearman -- Playing by ear: compensation, reclamation, and prosthesis in fourteenth-century song / Julie Singer -- Representations of disability in the thirteenth-century Miracles de Saint Louis / Hannah Skoda -- The exemplary blindness of Francis of Assisi / Scott Wells -- Experience, authority, and the mediation of deafness: Chaucer's Wife of Bath / Edna Edith Sayers -- Protecting or restraining? madness as a disability in late medieval France / Alexsandra Pfau -- Representations of disability: the medieval literary tradition of the fisher king / Kisha G. Tracy -- "Ther is moore mysshapen amonges thise beggeres": discourses of disability in Piers Plowman / Jennifer M. Gianfalla -- Kingly impairments in Anglo-Saxon literature: God's curse and God's blessing / Beth Tovey -- Difference and disability: on the logic of naming in the Icelandic sagas / John P. Sexton -- Henryson's textual and narrative prosthesis onto Chaucer's corpus: Cresseid's leprosy and her Schort conclusioun / Andrew Higl -- A medieval king "disabled" by an early modern construct: a contextual examination of Richard III / Abigail Elizabeth Comber -- Aging women and disability in early modern Spanish literature / Encarnación Juárez-Almendros |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0754668223 |