Table of Contents
Introduction
Scott M. Williams
Part I. Theoretical Frameworks
1. Plurality in Medieval Concepts of Disability
Kevin Timpe
Part II. Disability in this Life
2. Medieval Aristotelians on Congenital Disabilities and their Early Modern Critics
Gloria Frost
3. Personhood, Ethics, and Disability: A Comparison of Byzantine, Boethian, and Modern Concepts of Personhood
Scott M. Williams
4. The Imago Dei / Trinitatis and Disabled Persons: The Limitations of Intellectualism in Late Medieval Theology
John T. Slotemaker
5. Remembering ‘Mindless’ Persons: Intellectual Disability, Spanish Colonialism, and the Disappearance of a Medieval Account of Persons who Lack the Use of Reason
Miguel J. Romero
6. Deafness and Pastoral Care in the Middle Ages
Jenni Kuuliala and Reima Välimäki
7. Taking the ‘Dis’ out of Disability: Martyrs, Mothers, and Mystics in the Middle Ages
Christina Van Dyke
Part III. Disability in the Afterlife
8. Separated Souls: Disability in the Intermediate State
Mark K. Spencer
9. Disability and Resurrection
Richard Cross
10. Relative Disability and Transhuman Happiness: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Beatific Vision
Thomas M. Ward