Disability and medieval law : history, literature, society /

Disability and medieval law : history, literature, society /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2013. ©2013
Description:	vi, 193 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- To 1500. People with disabilities in literature -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- To 1500. People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Social aspects -- To 1500. People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9967023

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Other authors / contributors:	Rushton, Cory, editor.
ISBN:	1443849731 (cloth) 9781443849739 (cloth)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [174]-189) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: Punishment and Pity
Reflections on Disability in Medieval Legal Texts: Exclusion - Protection û Compensation
Penal Amputation and the Mutilated Heroine in La Manekine
'It Was No Sekenes': Discerning Disabilities in the Book of Margery Kempe
Illness and Authority: The Case of Francis of Assisi
Defining Mental Afflictions in Medieval English Administrative Records
Philomela Accuses
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index