Leah Pope Parker, "Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2025)

From disability metaphors to narratives structured around bodies presented as aberrant, early medieval English thoughtworlds conveyed the promise of resurrection and the hope of salvation through crip and disabled bodies. Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature (U Michigan Press, 2025) argues that early medieval Christian eschatology, as manifested…