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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Cover
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Title Page
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Introduction: Disabilities in Motion
1 Atypical Bodies: Seeking after Meaning in Physical Difference
2 Mobility Impairment: The Social Horizons of Disability in the Middle Ages
3 Chronic Pain and Illness: Reinstating Chronic-Crip Histories to Forge Affirmative Disability Futures
4 Blindness: Evolving Religious and Secular Constructions and Responses
5 Deafness: Reading Invisible Signs
6 Speech: Medieval Representations of Speech Impairments
7 Learning Difficulties: Ideas about Intellectual Diversity in Medieval Thought and Culture
8 Mental Health Issues: Folly, Frenzy, and the Family
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