LEADER 05075nam 2200637 450 001 9910619478703321 005 20180127151800.0 010 $a0-472-90380-2 010 $a0-472-12085-9 024 7 $a10.3998/mpub.915892 035 $a(CKB)3710000000149858 035 $a(EBL)3570549 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001339215 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11743005 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001339215 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11351194 035 $a(PQKB)11742811 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3570549 035 $a(OCoLC)882610615 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse40153 035 $a(MiU)10.3998/mpub.915892 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93346 035 $a(ScCtBLL)460e9ad4-878d-40bc-8df6-16b863419849 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000149858 100 $a20140709h20102010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStumbling blocks before the blind $emedieval constructions of a disability /$fEdward Wheatley 210 4$dİ2010 210 1$aAnn Arbor, Michigan :$cThe University of Michigan Press,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (299 p.) 225 1 $aCorporealities: Discourses of Disability 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-472-11720-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCripping 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. 330 $aBold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings of literary texts. Absolutely new in content and significantly innovative in methodology and argument, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind offers a cultural geography of medieval blindness that invites us to be more discriminating about how we think of geographies of disability today." ---Christopher Baswell, Columbia University "A challenging, interesting, and timely book that is also very well written . . . Wheatley has researched and brought together a leitmotiv that I never would have guessed was so pervasive, so intriguing, so worthy of a book." ---Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind presents the first comprehensive exploration of a disability in the Middle Ages, drawing on the literature, history, art history, and religious discourse of England and France. It relates current theories of disability to the cultural and institutional constructions of blindness in the eleventh through fifteenth centuries, examining the surprising differences in the treatment of blind people and the responses to blindness in these two countries. The book shows that pernicious attitudes about blindness were partially offset by innovations and ameliorations---social; literary; and, to an extent, medical---that began to foster a fuller understanding and acceptance of blindness. A number of practices and institutions in France, both positive and negative---blinding as punishment, the foundation of hospices for the blind, and some medical treatment---resulted in not only attitudes that commodified human sight but also inhumane satire against the blind in French literature, both secular and religious. Anglo-Saxon and later medieval England differed markedly in all three of these areas, and the less prominent position of blind people in society resulted in noticeably fewer cruel representations in literature. This book will interest students of literature, history, art history, and religion because it will provide clear contexts for considering any medieval artifact relating to blindness---a literary text, a historical document, a theological treatise, or a work of art. For some readers, the book will serve as an introduction to the field of disability studies, an area of increasing interest both within and outside of the academy. Edward Wheatley is Surtz Professor of Medieval Literature at Loyola University, Chicago. 410 0$aCorporealities. 606 $aBlind$zFrance$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aBlind$zGreat Britain$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aDisability studies 615 0$aBlind$xHistory 615 0$aBlind$xHistory 615 0$aDisability studies. 676 $a305.9/08109420902 700 $aWheatley$b Edward$0983068 712 02$aMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan) 801 0$bMiU 801 1$bMiU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910619478703321 996 $aStumbling blocks before the blind$92961188 997 $aUNINA