Disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages / edited by Stephanie Grace-Petinos, Leah Parker, and Alicia Spencer-Hall.

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ISBN
9781003694038 (electronic bk.)
1003694039 (electronic bk.)
9781040793503 (electronic bk. : PDF)
1040793509 (electronic bk. : PDF)
9781040799291 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
1040799299 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
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İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
First edition.
Yayın Bilgisi
Abingdon : Routledge, 2025.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (308 pages).
Dizi
Hagiography beyond tradition
Genel Not
First published in 2025 by Amsterdam University Press Ltd.
İçindekiler Notu
Acknowledgements, List of Figures, Introduction: Medieval Disability beyond the Sin-Sanctity Binary, Part I: Disabled Saints, Part II: Saints and the Disability Community, Epilogue: Curative Time and Crip Ancestorship, Index
Özet, vb.
This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of disability and holiness are excavated. Analyses span the sixth to the fifteenth century, with discussion of holy men and holy women, Western Christian and Buddhist traditions, hagiographic texts, images, and artefacts. Each chapter underscores that disability and sanctity co-exist with a vast array of connotations, not just fully positive or fully negative, but also every inflection in between. The collection is a powerful rebuttal to the notion of the integral relationship of disability-medieval and otherwise-with sin, stigma, and shame. So doing, it recentres medieval disability history as a lived history that merits exploration and celebration. In this way, the volume serves to reclaim sanctity in disability histories as a means to affirm the possibility of radical disability futures.
Konu
Disabilities __ Religious aspects __ Christianity __ History __ To 1500.
Disabilities __ Religious aspects __ Buddhism __ History __ To 1500.
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