Irina Metzler

Fools and idiots?

Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780719096365
• ISBN-10: 0719096367
• Artikelnr.: 42796271

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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