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" Disability in the Middle Ages : "
[edited by] Joshua Eyler
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BL
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585036
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b414255
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Disability in the Middle Ages : : reconsiderations and reverberations /\ [edited by] Joshua Eyler
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x, 235 pages ;; 24 cm
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9780754668220 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 0754668223 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 9781409402954 (ebook)
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: 1409402959 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: breaking boundaries, building bridges / Joshua R. Eyler -- Disability and the suppression of historical identity: rediscovering the professional backgrounds of the blind residents of the Hôpital des Quinze-vingts / Mark P. O'Tool -- "O sweete venym queynte!": pregnancy and the disabled female body in The Merchant's tale / Tory Vandeventer Pearman -- Playing by ear: compensation, reclamation, and prosthesis in fourteenth-century song / Julie Singer -- Representations of disability in the thirteenth-century Miracles de Saint Louis / Hannah Skoda -- The exemplary blindness of Francis of Assisi / Scott Wells -- Experience, authority, and the mediation of deafness: Chaucer's Wife of Bath / Edna Edith Sayers -- Protecting or restraining? madness as a disability in late medieval France / Alexsandra Pfau -- Representations of disability: the medieval literary tradition of the fisher king / Kisha G. Tracy -- "Ther is moore mysshapen amonges thise beggeres": discourses of disability in Piers Plowman / Jennifer M. Gianfalla -- Kingly impairments in Anglo-Saxon literature: God's curse and God's blessing / Beth Tovey -- Difference and disability: on the logic of naming in the Icelandic sagas / John P. Sexton -- Henryson's textual and narrative prosthesis onto Chaucer's corpus: Cresseid's leprosy and her Schort conclusioun / Andrew Higl -- A medieval king "disabled" by an early modern construct: a contextual examination of Richard III / Abigail Elizabeth Comber -- Aging women and disability in early modern Spanish literature / Encarnación Juárez-Almendros
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Literature, Medieval-- History and criticism
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People with disabilities in literature
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People with disabilities-- History-- To 1500
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.933527
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PN682.P45D57 2010
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Eyler, Joshua
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