A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages

Jonathan Hsy

ISBN 10: 1350436755 / ISBN 13: 9781350436756

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 2024

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350436755
• ISBN 13: 9781350436756
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 400 grams

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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 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).