Disability and Accessibility Workshop

Unit 5: Literary Representations

Featured Individual: Chaucer

Approaches

Read/Listen: Edward Wheatley, "Approaching Disability in Medieval Literature"

Contexts

Select a couple of entries in the Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe to read!

Featured Individual: Chaucer

Read: Jonathan Hsy, "The Monk’s Tale: Disability/Ability"

Checkpoint

Why are representations of disability important in literature? What can they tell us?

Which text did you select from the Medieval Disability Sourcebook? What did you learn?

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