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Wheatley, Edward, author.

Title Stumbling blocks before the blind : medieval constructions of a disability / Edward Wheatley.

Publication Info.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010]

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Axe JSTOR Open Ebooks	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource
	text txt rdacontent
	computer c rdamedia
	online resource cr rdacarrier
	data file
Series	Corporealities: discourses of disability
	Corporealities.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability.
Subject	Blind -- France -- History -- To 1500.
	Blind -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500.
	Disability studies.
	Études sur le handicap.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities.
	Blind
	Disability studies
	France https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJd8gD4vdtqQMdQHvYqbBP
	Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
Chronological Term	To 1500
Genre/Form	History
Other Form:	Print version: Wheatley, Edward. Stumbling blocks before the blind. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, Š2010 9780472117208 (DLC) 2009038403
ISBN	9780472120857 (ebook)
	0472120859
	130690255X (electronic bk.)
	9781306902557 (electronic bk.)
	0472117203 (cloth ; alk. paper)
	9780472117208 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Standard No.	10.3998/mpub.915892
	AU@ 000054198648
	CHNEW 000710783
	DEBBG BV043037337
	DEBSZ 423658808
	GBVCP 1003776310