Stumbling blocks before the blind : medieval constructions of a disability / Edward Wheatley.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010], ©2010.

xiii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index.

Cripping the middle ages, medievalizing disability theory -- Leading the blind : France versus England -- "Blind" jews and blind Christians : the metaphorics of marginalization -- Humoring the sighted : the comic embodiment of blindness -- Blinding, blindness, and sexual transgression -- Instructive interventions : miraculous chastisement and cure -- Medieval science and blindness : case studies of Jean L'Aveugle, Gilles Le Muisit, and John Audelay -- Afterword: the visibility of the blind in England and France.