Disability in the Middle Ages : reconsiderations and reverberations / [edited by] Joshua Eyler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eyler, Joshua R.

ebrary, Inc.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

People with disabilities in literature.

People with disabilities--History--To 1500.

People with disabilities.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 235 pages)

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

1409402959

9781409402954

Publisher Number:

99958995877

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.