A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages by Dr Jonathan Hsy Paperback

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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.

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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 IllustrationNotes of ContributorsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Disabilities in Motion, Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University, USA Tory V. Pearman, Miami University, Hamilton, USA and Joshua R. Eyler, Rice University, USAChapter 1: Atypical Bodies: Seeking after Meaning in Physical Difference, John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State University, USAChapter 2: Mobility Impairments: The Social Horizons of Disability in the Middle Ages, Richard H. Godden, Louisiana State University, USAChapter 3: Chronic Pain and Illness: Reinstating Crip-Chronic Histories to Forge Affirmative Disability Futures, Alicia Spencer-Hall, Queen Mary, University of London, UKChapter 4: Blindness: Evolving Religious and Secular Constructions and Responses, Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago, USAChapter 5: Deafness: Reading Invisible Signs, Julie Singer, Washington University in St. Louis, USAChapter 6: Speech: Medieval Representations of Speech Impairments, Kisha G. Tracy, Fitchburg State University, USAChapter 7: Learning Difficulties: Ideas about Intellectual Diversity in Medieval Thought and Culture, Eliza Buhrer, Colorado School of Mines, USAChapter 8: Mental Health Issues: Folly, Frenzy, and the Family, Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College, USAAuthor and Editor BiographiesReferencesIndex

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The definitive overview of the cultural history of disability in the middle ages.

Details ISBN1350436755 Format Paperback Author Professor Joshua R. Eyler Pages 200 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Edition Description NIP Series The Cultural Histories Series Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781350436756 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Joshua R. Eyler Illustrations 19 b/w Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2024-05-15 Publication Date 2024-04-18 UK Release Date 2024-04-18 DEWEY 362.40902 ISBN-10 1350436755 We've got this

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