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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Hsy is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University, USA and founding co-Director of the GW Digital Humanities Institute. His books include Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (2013). Tory V. Pearman is Associate Professor of English at Miami University, USA. Her previous books include Women and Disability in Medieval Literature (2010) Joshua R. Eyler is Associate Professor of Humanities and Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University, USA. His books include Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations (2010). Klappentext 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. Vorwort The definitive overview of the cultural history of disability in the middle ages. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustration Notes of Contributors Series Preface Introduction: Disabilities in Motion, Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University, USA Tory V. Pearman, Miami University, Hamilton, USA and Joshua R. Eyler, Rice University, USA Chapter 1: Atypical Bodies: Seeking after Meaning in Physical Difference, J ohn P. Sexton, Bridgewater State University, USA Chapter 2: Mobility Impairments: The Social Horizons of Disability in the Middle Ages, Richard H. Godden, Louisiana State University, USA Chapter 3: Chronic Pain and Illness: Reinstating Crip-Chronic Histories to Forge Affirmative Disability Futures, Alicia Spencer-Hall, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Chapter 4: Blindness: Evolving Religious and Secular Constructions and Responses, Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago, USA Chapter 5: Deafness: Reading Invisible Signs, Julie Singer, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Chapter 6: Speech: Medieval Representations of Speech Impairments, Kisha G. Tracy, Fitchburg State University, USA Chapter 7: Learning Difficulties: Ideas about Intellectual Diversity in Medieval Thought and Culture, Eliza Buhrer, Colorado School of Mines, USA Chapter 8: Mental Health Issues: Folly, Frenzy, and the Family, Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College, USA Author and Editor Biographies References
