Title: Fools and idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages (Disability History)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0719096367
ISBN 13: 9780719096365
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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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.

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

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