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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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