IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1105: Disability in Literature
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Ninon Dubourg, Laboratoire Identités Cultures et Territoires (ICT), Université Diderot Paris 7 Adelheid Russenberger, School of History, Queen Mary, University London |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Wendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology & Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia |
| Paper 1105-a | Disabled Old Women against Romance: The Depictions of 'La Vieille', Frontier of Love in Le roman de la Rose (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 1105-b | Eastern Infirmity and Unholy Suffering: Genealogy and Faith as Disability / The Borders of Ability and Disability (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Medicine, Mentalities |
| Paper 1105-c | It's All Fun and Games: Laughing at Newly Impaired and Newly Normative Bodies in Medieval France (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Mentalities |
| Abstract | These three papers examine the different ways in which imaginary accounts of Disability and impairment provided a means of expressing contemporary concerns, and how this literary use of Disability creates an insight into medieval cultural norms and thought. The papers' literary sources range from French comedy and romance to Christian descriptions of Islam, and provide an opportunity to explore how and when Disability intersected with other social categories of gender, race, and religion. |