A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages: : The Cultural Histories Series Jonathan Hsy Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages

Description

The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender, class, and race, among other dimensions of human difference. Ideas of disability in courtly romance, saints' lives, chronicles, sagas, secular lyrics, dramas, and pageants demonstrate the nuanced, and sometimes contradictory, relationship between cultural constructions of disability and the lived experience of impairment.
An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students of history, literature, visual art, cultural studies, and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages explores themes and topics such as atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

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Notes of Contributors

Series Preface

Introduction: Disabilities in Motion, Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University, USA Tory V. Pearman, Miami University, Hamilton, USA and Joshua R. Eyler, Rice University, USA
Chapter 1: Atypical Bodies: Seeking after Meaning in Physical Difference, John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State University, USA
Chapter 2: Mobility Impairments: The Social Horizons of Disability in the Middle Ages, Richard H. Godden, Louisiana State University, USA
Chapter 3: Chronic Pain and Illness: Reinstating Crip-Chronic Histories to Forge Affirmative Disability Futures, Alicia Spencer-Hall, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Chapter 4: Blindness: Evolving Religious and Secular Constructions and Responses, Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago, USA
Chapter 5: Deafness: Reading Invisible Signs, Julie Singer, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Chapter 6: Speech: Medieval Representations of Speech Impairments, Kisha G. Tracy, Fitchburg State University, USA
Chapter 7: Learning Difficulties: Ideas about Intellectual Diversity in Medieval Thought and Culture, Eliza Buhrer, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Chapter 8: Mental Health Issues: Folly, Frenzy, and the Family, Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College, USA
Author and Editor Biographies
References
Index

Product details

Published	Mar 10 2022
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	288
ISBN	9781350028715
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations	19 b/w
Dimensions	10 x 7 inches
Series	The Cultural Histories Series
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing