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878441
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Wheatley, Edward
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Stumbling blocks before the blind : : medieval constructions of a disability /\ Edward Wheatley.
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| Publication Statement
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Ann Arbor, Michigan :: The University of Michigan Press,, 2010.
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, ©2010
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| Series Statement
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Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
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1 online resource (299 pages).
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| ISBN
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0472120859
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: 130690255X
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: 9780472120857
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: 9781306902557
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0472117203
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9780472117208
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Cripping 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.
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| Abstract
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Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability.
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Blind-- France-- History-- To 1500.
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Blind-- Great Britain-- History-- To 1500.
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Disability studies.
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Blind.
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Disability studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- People with Disabilities.
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France.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.9/08109420902
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HV1965.W52 2010eb
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