Fools and Idiots? - Irina Metzler

Fools and Idiots?

Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages

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Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2016
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-9636-5 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
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 -- .
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. -- .

Irina Metzler is Research Fellow in the Department of History at Swansea University -- .

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
Index -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.2.2016
Reihe/Serie Disability History
Zusatzinfo Illustrations, black & white
Verlagsort Manchester
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 449 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 0-7190-9636-7 / 0719096367
ISBN-13 978-0-7190-9636-5 / 9780719096365
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