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,…mehr
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.
Jonathan Hsy is Associate Professor of English at The George Washington University, USA. His books include Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (2013) and he has published widely on disability issues. Tory V. Pearman is Associate Professor of English at Miami University, USA. Her previous books include Women and Disability in Medieval Literature (2010) and Disability and Knighthood in Malory's Morte Darthur (2019). Joshua R. Eyler is Director of Faculty Development and Lecturer in Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi, USA. His books include How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching (2018) and Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations (2010).
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List of Illustration 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
List of Illustration 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
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