Disability in medieval Europe : thinking about physical impairment during the High Middle Ages, c. 1100-1400
"This is the first book that comprehensively describes disability and physical impairment in the Middle Ages. What attitudes did the medieval world have towards disabled people? Was every physical impairment a punishment for sin? And how did impairment affect the normal, everyday life of medieval disabled people? Disability in Medieval Europe presents a serious account of these and other aspects of the cultural construction of disability in that period of European history."--Jacket
Sociology of disability
vi, 355 pages ; 24 cm.
9780415365031, 0415365031
59756104
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Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Tables
1. Introduction
1.1 Structure, methodology and scope pp 1.2 Definitions and stereotypes of disability pp
2. The theoretical framework of disability
2.1 A historiography of disability
2.2 Modern theories of disability and disability studies
2.3 Summary
3. Medieval theoretical concepts of the (impaired) body
3.1 Thisworldly: Notions of health, impairmentand sin
3.2 Otherworldly: Impairment and corporal resurrection
3.3 Summary
4. Impairment in medieval medicine and natural philosophy
4.1 Impairment and the medieval "sciences"
4.2 Aetiologies of impairment
4.3 Preventative medicine
4.4 Social and "alternative" medicine
4.5 Summary
5. Medieval miracles and impairment
5.1 The context of saints, miracles and healing
5.2 Medicine, transgression and miracle
5.3 Narratives of impairment in medieval miracles
5.4 Summary
6. Conclusion
Appendix
Medieval Miracle Narratives
V Miracles invitae from St Gall
F Miracles of St Foy at Conques
I Miracles of St Ithamar at Rochester
W Miracles of St William at Norwich pp
M Miracles of the Virgin Mary at Rocamadour
J Miracles of the Hand of St James at Reading
G Miracles of St Godric of Finchale
E Miracles of St Elisabeth at Marburg
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index