Fools and Idiots?: Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages - Couverture souple

Metzler, Irina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719096375 ISBN 13 : 9780719096372

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2018

Synopsis

This is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, it considers a neglected field of social and medical history and makes an original contribution to the problem of a shifting concept such as 'idiocy'. Medieval physicians, lawyers and the schoolmen of the emerging universities wrote the texts which shaped medieval definitions of intellectual ability and its counterpart, disability. In studying such texts, which form part of our contemporary scientific and cultural heritage, we gain a better understanding of which people were considered to be intellectually disabled and how their participation and inclusion in society differed from the situation today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Irina Metzler is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Department of History at Swansea University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719096375
• ISBN 13: 9780719096372
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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