Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Hagiography Beyond Tradition
ISBN-10
9463724338
ISBN-13
9789463724333
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Imprint
Amsterdam University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 28th, 2025
Print length
308 Pages
Product Classification:
6th century, c 500 to c 5997th century, c 600 to c 6998th century, c 700 to c 7999th century, c 800 to c 89910th century, c 900 to c 99911th century, c 1000 to c 109912th century, c 1100 to c 119913th century, c 1200 to c 129914th century, c 1300 to c 1399European historyMedieval historyHistory of medicineHistoryEuropean history
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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 tenth to the fourteenth 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.
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