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Metzler Irina

Fools and Idiots?: Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages

Manchester University Press 2018,

36.00 €

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Author
Metzler Irina
Publishers
Manchester University Press 2018
Keyword
Antropologia
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

8vo, br. ed. 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. About the Author: Irina Metzler is Research Fellow in the Department of History at Swansea University
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