This paper aims to raise the question concerning the genesis of a specifically modern understanding of ableism vis-à-vis the relationship between ability and the political-constitutional comprehension of the social order. This contribution wants to stimulate a constitutional analysis of the question of ableism beyond the simple critique and/or rejection of subsisting dominant norms, by pointing at the comprehension of the process that has made their normalization and naturalization possible. To this purpose, the paper examines two examples taken from medieval and modern literature in which the problem of ability appears in its problematic relationship with the question regarding the political order and its governance: these examples are particularly significant in so far as they focus on the specific link between gendered identities and ableist models.
