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Title: Fools and Idiots?
Condition: New
Subtitle: Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages
ISBN-10: 0719096375
EAN: 9780719096372
ISBN: 9780719096372
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 06/03/2018
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 138mm
Author: Irina Metzler
Genre: Medicine
Book Series: Disability History
Item Width: 14mm
Item Weight: 304g
Release Year: 2018

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