Title Stumbling blocks before the blind : medieval constructions of a disability / Edward Wheatley.

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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]

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Description	1 online resource.
	data file rda
Series	Corporealities: discourses of disability
	Corporealities.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Cripping the middle ages, medievalizing disability theory -- Leading the blind : France versus England -- "Blind" jews and blind Christians : the metaphorics of marginalization -- Humoring the sighted : the comic embodiment of blindness -- Blinding, blindness, and sexual transgression -- Instructive interventions : miraculous chastisement and cure -- Medieval science and blindness : case studies of Jean L'Aveugle, Gilles Le Muisit, and John Audelay -- Afterword: the visibility of the blind in England and France.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Summary	Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability.
Subject	Blind -- France -- History -- To 1500.
	Blind -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500.
	Disability studies.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities.
	Blind. (OCoLC)fst00834291
	Disability studies. (OCoLC)fst00894656
	France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term	To 1500
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Wheatley, Edward, author. Stumbling blocks before the blind Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010. 9780472117208 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2009038403
ISBN	9780472120857 electronic book
	130690255X (electronic book)
	9781306902557 (electronic book)
Standard No.	10.3998/mpub.915892

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