A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance

Dr Susan Anderson, Dr Liam Haydon (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-43674-9 (ISBN)

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In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodies and minds disabled. A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance, covering the period from 1450 to 1650, explores evidence of the possibilities for disability that existed in the European Renaissance, observable in the literary and medicinal texts, and the family, corporate, and legal records discussed in the chapters of this volume. These chapters provide an interdisciplinary overview of the configurations of bodies, minds and collectives that have left evidence of some of the ways that normativity and its challengers interacted in the Renaissance.
An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

Susan Anderson is Principal Lecturer and Deputy Head of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Liam Haydon is an International Development Policy Manager at United Kingdom Research and Innovation. Previously he was Lecturer in History at the University of Kent, UK.

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Series Preface

Introduction, Susan Anderson, Sheffield Hallam University, UK and Liam Haydon, United Kingdom Research and Innovation, UK

Chapter 1: Atypical Bodies, by Simone Chess, Wayne State University, USA

Chapter 2: Mobility Impairment, by Liam Haydon and Edmond Smith, University of Manchester, UK

Chapter 3: Pain, by Adleen Crapo, University of Toronto, Canada

Chapter 4: Blindness, by Bianca Frohne, Keil University, Germany

Chapter 5: Deafness, by Jennifer Nelson, Gallaudet University, USA

Chapter 6: Speech, by Susan Anderson

Chapter 7: Learning Difficulties, by Emily Lathrop, The George Washington University, USA

Chapter 8: Mental Health, by Sonya Freeman Loftis, Morehouse College, USA

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-350-43674-7 / 1350436747
ISBN-13	978-1-350-43674-9 / 9781350436749
Zustand	Neuware