A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages (The Cultural Histories Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350028711 ISBN 13: 9781350028715

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Authors

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350028711
• ISBN 13: 9781350028715
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Hsy Jonathan, Pearman Tory V., Eyler Joshua R.