TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barasch,Moshe
TI  - Blindness: the history of a mental image in western thought 
SN  - 0415927439
AV  - HV1581. B37 2001
U1  - 305.908161 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Blind
KW  - History
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Blind in art
KW  - Blind in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1; Antiquity --; Attitudes of the Bible --; Classical Antiquity: Causes of Blindness --; Blindness and Guilt --; The Blind Seer --; Ate --; Visual Representations --; A Concluding Note --; 2; The Blind in the Early Christian World --; The Healing of the Blind --; Blindness and Revelation: The Story of Paul --; A Concluding Observation --; 3; The Middle Ages --; The Antichrist --; Allegorical Blindness --; The Blind Beggar --; The Blind and His Guide --; 4; The Renaissance and Its Sequel --; The Blind Beggar --; Metaphorical Blindness --; The Revival of the Blind Seer --; Early Secularizations of the Blind --; 5; The Disenchantment of Blindness: Diderot's Lettre sur les aveugles --; Notes --; Index
ER  -