Oh yeah #medievaltwitter I wanted to check with specialists (esp on POC and disability) if my terminology is correct and respectful (cc. @aspencerhall @NinonDubourg @r_gillibrand @krisrich @medievalpoc @dorothyk98 @JonathanHsy) https://issuu.com/mxcoman/stacks/1ab80aeb62e7424ba6396efb2403d5bf …
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Replying to @MxComan @NinonDubourg and
Just perused the disability zine, here are some thoughts: 1) I <3 the rationale & finished product of the zine(s)! Sterling work
@MxComan ; 2) the focus on disability and/as sin pp. 4-7 is only 1 side of the story here - absolutely disability 1/1 reply 4 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @aspencerhall @MxComan and
...understood - as with all things in MA - in connctn to religion. BUT non-normative bodily experience could also be, & was at times, understood as spiritually *positive*. This is fairly commonplace in saints' lives, e.g., & in the motif of Christ as a leper 2/
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The point being (as Esther Cohen says about pain in MA more generally in "Towards a History of European Physical Sensibility" from 1995) is that bodily experiences were understood to mean SOMETHING & the discourses in which they signified incl religion, medicine, etc 3/
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Replying to @aspencerhall @MxComan and
& this communicative compulsion need not have the same message, even in a single text. E.g. in a saint's life, a devotee could be cured of "sinful" illness whilst the saint themselves glories in their own spiritually salvific bodily disintegration 4/
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Replying to @aspencerhall @MxComan and
It is *incredibly* important to show this nuanced, ambiguous state of affairs - i.e. refuting the notion that medieval disability = sin, full stop - in order to avoid discriminatory "historicist" (medicalized) readings of disability 5/
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AND to show the richness of the medieval era for disability studies, thereby re-instating a genealogy, lived histories for the contemporary disabled community. 6/
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Replying to @aspencerhall @MxComan and
Re: fear of perpetuating the medical model of disability by doing medieval (etc) work in the field, see e.g. Beth Linker. "On the Borderland " (2013). I cover this too in forthc ch in vol "Cultural History Disability in the MA" ed.
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Replying to @aspencerhall @MxComan and
Final thing: leprosy is included as a disability (yes, I agree!) but it is substantively different as a chronic condition - suggest add wording to 1st blurb of disability to allow greater coverage - e.g. visible/invisible/sensory/physical/illness etc 8/
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this is from over 10 years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2006/dec/01/highereducation.uk …
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @MxComan and
Particularly relevant section from the Baswell article. We've made headway in the 12 years since that was written, partic in medievalist circles, but the notion amongst non-specialists that medieval disability = sin & sin alone is hard to shake, alaspic.twitter.com/Pp1979DGH0
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