Fools and idiots? : Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Metzler, Irina, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
People with mental disabilities.
Developmental disabilities.
MEDICAL > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
History Of Medicine.
Medieval History.
Intellectual Disability > history
Developmental disabilities > History > To 1500.
People with mental disabilities > History > To 1500.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Fools and Idiots?; Contents ; List of Figures ; Series editors' foreword ; Acknowledgements ; List of Abbreviations ; 1: Pre-/conceptions: problems of definition and historiography; 2: From morio to fool: semantics of intellectual disability ; 3: Cold complexions and moist humors: natural science and intellectual disability ; 4: The infantile and the irrational: mind, soul and intellectual disability ; 5: Non-consenting adults: laws and intellectual disability ; 6: Fools, pets and entertainers: socio-cultural considerations of intellectual disability.
  • 7: Reconsiderations: rationality, intelligence and human status Select bibliography ; Index.

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