Women And Disability In Medieval Literature
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Women And Disability In Medieval Literature
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Author : T. Pearman
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-11-14
Women And Disability In Medieval Literature written by T. Pearman and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is first in its field to analyze how disability and gender both thematically and formally operate within late medieval popular literature. Reading romance, conduct manuals, and spiritual autobiography, it proposes a 'gendered model' for exploring the processes by which differences like gender and disability get coded as deviant.
Disability In The Middle Ages
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Author : Joshua R. Eyler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Disability In The Middle Ages written by Joshua R. Eyler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such standard medieval texts as the Arthurian Legend, The Canterbury Tales and Old Norse Sagas, providing an accessible entry point to the field of medieval disability studies to medievalists. The essays explore a wide variety of disabilities, including the more traditionally accepted classifications of blindness and deafness, as well as perceived disabilities such as madness, pregnancy and age. Adopting a ground-breaking new approach to the study of disability in the medieval period, this provocative book will interest medievalists and scholars of disability throughout history.
Disability And Knighthood In Malory S Morte Darthur
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Author : Tory Pearman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-03
Disability And Knighthood In Malory S Morte Darthur written by Tory Pearman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book considers the representation of disability and knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur. The study asserts that Malory’s unique definition of knighthood, which emphasizes the unstable nature of the knight’s physical body and the body of chivalry to which he belongs, depends upon disability. As a result, a knight must perpetually oscillate between disability and ability in order to maintain his status. The knights’ movement between disability and ability is also essential to the project of Malory’s book, as well as its narrative structure, as it reflects the text’s fixation on and alternation between the wholeness and fragmentation of physical and social bodies. Disability in its many forms undergirds the book, helping to cohere the text’s multiple and sometimes disparate chapters into the "hoole book" that Malory envisions. The Morte, thus, construes disability as an as an ambiguous, even liminal state that threatens even as it shores up the cohesive notion of knighthood the text endorses.
A Cultural History Of Disability In The Middle Ages
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Author : Jonathan Hsy
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-05-17
A Cultural History Of Disability In The Middle Ages written by Jonathan Hsy and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-17 with History categories.
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.
Medieval Disability Sourcebook
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Author : Cameron Hunt McNabb
language : en
Publisher: punctum books
Release Date : 2020
Medieval Disability Sourcebook written by Cameron Hunt McNabb and has been published by punctum books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
The field of disability studies significantly contributes to contemporary discussions of the marginalization of and social justice for individuals with disabilities. However, what of disability in the past? The Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe explores what medieval texts have to say about disability, both in their own time and for the present. This interdisciplinary volume on medieval Europe combines historical records, medical texts, and religious accounts of saints' lives and miracles, as well as poetry, prose, drama, and manuscript images to demonstrate the varied and complicated attitudes medieval societies had about disability. Far from recording any monolithic understanding of disability in the Middle Ages, these contributions present a striking range of voices-to, from, and about those with disabilities-and such diversity only confirms how disability permeated (and permeates) every aspect of life. The Medieval Disability Sourcebook is designed for use inside the undergraduate or graduate classroom or by scholars interested in learning more about medieval Europe as it intersects with the field of disability studies. Most texts are presented in modern English, though some are preserved in Middle English and many are given in side-by-side translations for greater study. Each entry is prefaced with an academic introduction to disability within the text as well as a bibliography for further study. This sourcebook is the first in a proposed series focusing on disability in a wide range of premodern cultures, histories, and geographies.
Constructions Of Widowhood And Virginity In The Middle Ages
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Author : Cindy L. Carlson
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2000-01-06
Constructions Of Widowhood And Virginity In The Middle Ages written by Cindy L. Carlson and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-06 with Psychology categories.
To be a virgin or a widow never promised a stable, uniform status to a woman during the Middle Ages. Rather, these positions were areas open to debate, constructions that did and still do create and question notions of gender roles, areas of power, and areas of disability. Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages addresses many facets of these two female positions in medieval literature: gender constructions; the body and what it means to make it visible, whether in admiration, torture, or martyrdom; issues of physicality and abjection; creations of literary voice for women who write or create situations for them to be written about. A distinguished group of female scholars examine the meanings behind widowhood and virginity both individually and in relation to each other. The focus on both positions in the same volume makes Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages an unprecedented work.
Disabled Bodies In Early Modern Spanish Literature
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Author : Encarnación Juárez-Almendros
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-31
Disabled Bodies In Early Modern Spanish Literature written by Encarnación Juárez-Almendros and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories, concluding that paradoxically, femininity, bodily afflictions, and mental instability characterized the new literary heroes at the very time Spain was at the apex of its imperial power.
Disability And Knighthood In Malory S Morte D Arthur
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Author : Tory Vandeventer Pearman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Disability And Knighthood In Malory S Morte D Arthur written by Tory Vandeventer Pearman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Knights and knighthood in literature categories.
Feminist Approaches To The Body In Medieval Literature
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Author : Linda Lomperis
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 1993
Feminist Approaches To The Body In Medieval Literature written by Linda Lomperis and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Criticism categories.
Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature forges a new link between contemporary feminist and cultural theory and medieval history and literature. The essays establish crucial historical connections between feminist theorizing about the body and specific accounts of gendered bodies in medieval texts.
Monstrosity Disability And The Posthuman In The Medieval And Early Modern World
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Author : Richard H. Godden
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-21
Monstrosity Disability And The Posthuman In The Medieval And Early Modern World written by Richard H. Godden and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of “disability” and “monstrosity” in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies. Analyzing Medieval and Early Modern art and literature replete with images of non-normative bodies, these essays consider the pernicious history of defining people with distinctly non-normative bodies or non-normative cognition as monsters. In many cases throughout Western history, a figure marked by what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has termed “the extraordinary body” is labeled a “monster.” This volume explores the origins of this conflation, examines the problems and possibilities inherent in it, and casts both disability and monstrosity in light of emergent, empowering discourses of posthumanism.