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Darrera modificació: 2011-06-01
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Turner, Wendy J. - Vandeventer Pearman, Tory (eds.), The Treatment of Disabled Persons in Medieval Europe: Examining Disability in the Historical, Legal, Literary, Medical, and Religious Discourses of the Middle Ages, Lewiston, NY - Lampeter, UK, Edwin Mellen, 2011, 452 pp.
- Resum
- The essays in this volume take as their impetus the relations of power that are produced by the social interactions of the disabled and nondisabled in medieval and early modern culture. This book demonstrates the necessity of the disability perspective to any consideration of embodied identity in the Middle Ages and beyond. In addition, it emphasizes the importance of placing social processes of identity formation within their particular cultural and historical moments. The essays here demonstrate the wide-ranging and pervasive presence of disability in the Middle Ages and, consequently, the importance of a disability perspective to a more complete understanding of medieval notions of the self and body in domestic, legal, medical, and social terms. The collection represents an initial attempt to grapple with the major challenges in medieval disability scholarship. First, this book compels medieval scholars to become aware of disability as an important subject of inquiry and to consider disability in their investigations of identity categories. Next, this collection asserts the importance of a historical emphasis in disability scholarship overall and affirms the Middle Ages as a period not to be neglected in the history of disability but mined for its rich, varied, and uniquely medieval standpoint. Lastly, by exploring disability within historical, legal, medical, and literary discourse of the Middle Ages, this book brings the disability perspective to the humanities, prompting scholars to carefully examine, to paraphrase Linton, what has always been there but has never been discussed.
Using both primary and secondary sources, this book aims to define "disability" in the Middle Ages as it was viewed by society and by the individual. The interdisciplinary approach combines such topics as literature and deafness, the angry wives of madmen and the husbands, or the problematic description of an impairment at a time when vocabulary was severely limited.Topics such as insanity, leprosy, epilepsy, monstrosity, and simple physical impairment are dealt with in engaging, informative, and fresh ways. The book should appeal to students and scholars of the Middle Ages, psychology of illness, and disability studies.
Contents:
* Kevin Corrigan / Foreword
* Wendy J. Turner / Preface: Abilities and Disabilities
* Tory Vandeventer Pearman / Introduction
* 1. Irina Metzler / What's in a name? Considering the Onomastics of Disability in the Middle Ages
* 2. Wendy J. Turner / Angry Wives of Madmen: The Economic Constraints of Families under Royal Guardianship in England
* 3. Margaret Trenchard-Smith / Byzantine Households and the Sacred Disease: Caring for Epileptics
* 4. Jessica L. Mou / “Sumir kallaðr þat meinsemd”: Going Berserk in the Shadow of State Centralization in Old Norse Society
* 5. Sara Butler / Representing the Middle Ages: The Insanity Defense in Medieval England
* 6. L. E. Wilson / Hagiographical Interpretations of Disability in the Twelfth-Century Miracula of St Frideswide of Oxford
* 7. Christina M. Heckman / Cancer, Leprosy, and Blood: Conflicting Pieties in the Old English Avenging of the Savior
* 8. John M. Theilmann / Disease or Disability: The Conceptual Relationship in Medieval and Early Modern England
* 9. Derek Newman-Stille / Morality and Monstrous Disability in Topographia Hibernica
* 10. Gillian Nelson Bauer / The Werewolf's Closet: Clothing as Prosthesis in Marie de France's Bisclavret
* 11. Tory Vandeventer Pearman / Disruptive Dames: Disability and the Loathly Lady in the Tale of Florent, the Wife of Bath's Tale, and the Weddynge of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
* 12. Mikee Delony / Alisoun's Aging, Hearing-Impaired Female Body: Gazing at the Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
* Edward Wheatley / Afterword
* Irina Metzler / Appendix: Names
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Dret
Història de la literatura
Religió
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor: http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=8 ...
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