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Book SynopsisJonathan Hsy is Associate Professor of English at The George Washington University, USA. His books include
Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (2013) and he has published widely on disability issues.
Tory V. Pearman is Associate Professor of English at Miami University, USA. Her previous books include
Women and Disability in Medieval Literature (2010) and
Disability and Knighthood in Malory's Morte Darthur (2019).
Joshua R. Eyler is Director of Faculty Development and Lecturer in Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi, USA. His books include
How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching (2018) and
Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations (2010).
Table of ContentsList of Illustration Notes of Contributors Series Preface Introduction: Disabilities in Motion,
Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University, USA Tory V. Pearman, Miami University, Hamilton, USA and Joshua R. Eyler, Rice University, USA Chapter 1: Atypical Bodies: Seeking after Meaning in Physical Difference,
John P. Sexton, Bridgewater State University, USA Chapter 2: Mobility Impairments: The Social Horizons of Disability in the Middle Ages,
Richard H. Godden, Louisiana State University, USA Chapter 3: Chronic Pain and Illness: Reinstating Crip-Chronic Histories to Forge Affirmative Disability Futures,
Alicia Spencer-Hall, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Chapter 4: Blindness: Evolving Religious and Secular Constructions and Responses,
Edward Wheatley, Loyola University Chicago, USA Chapter 5: Deafness: Reading Invisible Signs,
Julie Singer, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Chapter 6: Speech: Medieval Representations of Speech Impairments,
Kisha G. Tracy, Fitchburg State University, USA Chapter 7: Learning Difficulties: Ideas about Intellectual Diversity in Medieval Thought and Culture,
Eliza Buhrer, Colorado School of Mines, USA Chapter 8: Mental Health Issues: Folly, Frenzy, and the Family,
Aleksandra Pfau, Hendrix College, USA Author and Editor Biographies References Index
