A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages is written by Jonathan Hsy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1350028738 (ISBN 10) and 9781350028739 (ISBN 13).

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.