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I. Galton, A. Ecclesiastical architecture.--II. Gotch, J.A. Domestic architecture.--III. Oman, C.W.C. Military architecture, and art of war.--IV. Hartshorne, A. Costume, military and civil.--V. Barnard, F.P. Heraldry.--VI. Oppenheim, M. Shipping.--VII. Smith, Lucy T. Town life.--VIII. Warner, G.T. Country life.--IX. Jessopp, A. Monasticism.--X. Leedam, I.S. Trade and commerce.--XI. Rait, R.S. Learning and education.--XII. Rushforth, G. McN. Art.--Glossary.--Index. ; Mode of access: Internet.

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

For the first time, a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy, they argue, have been greatly exaggerated; and, for the Middle Ages, the stakes couldn t be higher. Eight essays offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies. The result? A recuperated medieval tragedy that is as much a branch of literature as it is of theology, politics, law, or ethics and which, at long last, rejoins the millennium-long conversation about one of the world s most enduring art forms.Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality

Series Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Religion and Ritualized Belief -- 2. Self and Society -- 3. Fashion and Adornment -- 4. Production and Practice -- 5. Health and Hygiene -- 6. Gender and Sexuality -- 7. Race and Ethnicity -- 8. Class and Social Status -- 9. Cultural Representations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Cover -- Halftitle Page -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Imprint.

List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Preface -- Introduction Emanuele Conte, Roma Tre University, Italy and Laurent Mayali, University of California, Berkeley, USA -- 1. Justice Joshua C. Tate, Southern Methodist University, USA -- 2. Constitution Emanuele Conte, Roma Tre Universit, Italy, Laurent Mayali, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Beatrice Pasciuta, University of Palermo, Italy -- 3. Codes Elsa Marmursztejn, University of Reims, France -- 4. Agreements: The Discovery of the Market and the Control of the Guilds Jonathan Garton, University of Warwick, UK -- 5. Arguments Beatrice Pasciuta, University of Palermo, Italy -- 6. Property and Possession Tyler Lange, University of Washington, USA -- 7. Wrongs: Towards a Cultural History of a Medieval Legal Concept Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA -- 8. Legal Profession Sara Menzinger, Roma Tre University, Italy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --1. Boethius and the Rise of Europe --2. Gregory the Great and the New Power of the Franks --3. Charlemagne and the First Renewal of the Roman Empire --4. Consolidation of the Kingdoms --5. The End of Days Draws Menacingly Close --6. "The True Emperor Is the Pope" --7. The Long Century of Papal Schisms --8. The Vicar of God --9. The Triumph of Jurisprudence --10. The Light of Reason --11. The Monarchy --12. Waiting for Judgment Day and the Renaissance --Epilogue: The Dark Middle Ages? --Abbreviations --Notes --Selected Bibliography --Index.