A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance (The Cultural Histories Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350028878 ISBN 13: 9781350028876

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Synopsis

In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodies and minds disabled. A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance, covering the period from 1450 to 1650, explores evidence of the possibilities for disability that existed in the European Renaissance, observable in the literary and medicinal texts, and the family, corporate, and legal records discussed in the chapters of this volume. These chapters provide an interdisciplinary overview of the configurations of bodies, minds and collectives that have left evidence of some of the ways that normativity and its challengers interacted in the Renaissance.
An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

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About the Authors

Susan Anderson is Principal Lecturer and Deputy Head of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Liam Haydon is an International Development Policy Manager at United Kingdom Research and Innovation. Previously he was a postdoctoral fellow in History at the University of Kent, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350028878
• ISBN 13: 9781350028876
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Anderson Susan, Haydon Liam