LEADER 04026nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910458903903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-317-15019-8 010 $a1-317-15018-X 010 $a1-282-54517-5 010 $a9786612545177 010 $a1-4094-0295-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000018485 035 $a(EBL)513937 035 $a(OCoLC)630537356 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000401394 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11269101 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000401394 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10398657 035 $a(PQKB)10382313 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC513937 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5293575 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL513937 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10385837 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL924995 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5293575 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL254517 035 $a(OCoLC)756047725 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000018485 100 $a20091117d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDisability in the Middle Ages$b[electronic resource] $erehabilitations, reconsiderations, reverberations /$fJoshua Eyler 210 $aBurlington, VT $cAshgate$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7546-6822-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; 7 Protecting or Restraining? Madness as a Disability in Late Medieval France; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Breaking Boundaries, Building Bridges; Part 1 Reconsiderations; 1 Disability and the Suppression of Historical Identity: Rediscovering the Professional Backgrounds of the Blind Residents of t; 2 'O Sweete Venym Queynte!': Pregnancy and the Disabled Female Body in the Merchant's Tale; 3 Playing by Ear: Compensation, Reclamation, and Prosthesis in Fourteenth-Century Song 327 $a4 Representations of Disability in the Thirteenth-Century Miracles de Saint Louis 5 The Exemplary Blindness of Francis of Assisi; 6 Experience, Authority, and the Mediation of Deafness: Chaucer's Wife of Bath; 8 Representations of Disability: The Medieval Literary Tradition of the Fisher King; 9 'There is moore mysshapen amonges thise beggeres': Discourses of Disability in Piers Plowman; 10 Kingly Impairments in Anglo-Saxon Literature: God's Curse and God's Blessing; 11 Difference and Disability: On the Logic of Naming in the Icelandic Sagas; Part 2 Reverberations 327 $a12 Henryson's Textual and Narrative Prosthesis onto Chaucer's Corpus: Cresseid's Leprosy and Her Schort Conclusioun 13 A Medieval King 'Disabled' by an Early Modern Construct: A Contextual Examination of Richard III; Bibliography; Index 330 $aWhat do we mean when we talk about disability in the middle ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such standard medieval texts as the Arthurian Legend, The Canterbury Tales and Old Norse Sagas, providing an accessible entry point to the field of medieval disability studies to medievalists. The essays explore a wide variety of disabilities, including the more traditionally accepted classifications of blindness and deafness, 606 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPeople with disabilities in literature 606 $aPeople with disabilities$xHistory$yTo 1500 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPeople with disabilities in literature. 615 0$aPeople with disabilities$xHistory 676 $a809/.933527 700 $aEyler$b Joshua$0954047 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458903903321 996 $aDisability in the Middle Ages$92157551 997 $aUNINA