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Fools and Idiots?
Irina Metzler
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Description for Fools and Idiots?
Hardcover. Combines modern and medieval approaches to intellectual disability, and engages with a very wide range of sources in order to fill a major gap in this relatively new field, and demonstrate that disability, illness and healthcare are embedded in daily life Series: Disability History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLC1; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Disability History
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719096365
SKU
V9780719096365
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About Irina Metzler
Irina Metzler is Research Fellow in the Department of History at Swansea University -- .
Reviews for Fools and Idiots?
'For this meticulous work in organizing evidence and arguments presented by scholars in multiple fields and languages, and focused on numerous geographies (though with a special bias towards England), specialists in the fields of disability, madness, folly, reason and unreason, and even childhood will find this work to be invaluable. This book is an opening gambit, not a definitive answer ... Read more