Disability in the Middle Ages

摘要: Contents: Introduction: breaking boundaries, building bridges, Joshua R. Eyler Part 1 Reconsiderations: Disability and the suppression of historical identity: rediscovering professional backgrounds blind residents HA'pital des Quinze-Vingts, Mark P. O'Tool 'O sweete venym queynte!': pregnancy disabled female body in Merchant's Tale, Tory Vandeventer Pearman Playing by ear: compensation, reclamation, prosthesis 14th-century song, Julie Singer Representations disability 13th-century Miracles de Saint Louis, Hannah Skoda The exemplary blindness Francis Assisi, Scott Wells Experience, authority, mediation deafness: Chaucer's Wife Bath, Edna Edith Sayers Protecting or restraining? Madness as a late medieval France, Aleksandra Pfau disability:the literary tradition Fisher King, Kisha G. Tracy 'Ther is moore mysshapen amonges thise beggeres': discourses Piers Plowman, Jennifer M. Gianfalla Kingly impairments Anglo-Saxon literature: God's curse blessing, Beth Tovey Difference disability: on logic naming Icelandic sagas, John Sexton. 2 Reverberations: Henryson's textual narrative onto corpus: Cresseid's leprosy her schort conclusioun, Andrew Higl A king 'disabled' an early modern construct: contextual examination Richard III, Abigail Elizabeth Comber Aging women Spanish literature, EncarnaciA^3n JuA!rez-Almendros Bibliography Index.