| Description |
1 online resource (198 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : punishment and pity / Cory James Rushton -- Reflections on disability in medieval legal texts : exclusion, protection, compensation / Irina Metzler -- Penal amputation and the mutilated heroine in La Manekine / Amanda Hopkins -- 'It was no sekenes' : discerning disabilities in the book of Margery Kempe / Marian E. Lupo -- Illness and authority : the case of Francis of Assisi / Donna Trembinski -- Defining mental afflictions in medieval English administrative records / Wendy J. Turner -- Philomela accuses / Cory James Rushton |
| Summary |
Disability and Medieval Law: History, Literature and Society is an intervention in the growing and complex field of medieval disability studies. The size of the field and the complexity of the subject lend themselves to the use of case studies: how a particular author imagines an injury, how a particular legal code deals with (and sometimes creates) injury to the human body. While many studies have fruitfully insisted on theoretical approaches, Disability and Medieval Law considers how medieval societies directly dealt with crime, punishment, oath-taking, and mental illness. When did medieval |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- To 1500
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People with disabilities in literature -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- To 1500
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People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Social aspects -- To 1500
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Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500.
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Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
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Disability & the law.
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People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Behinderung
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Recht
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cory James Rushton
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| ISBN |
9781527551299 |
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1527551296 |
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