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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 shape

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Author

Irina Metzler

Publisher

Manchester University Press 4/1/2018

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719096372

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, Science

Updated

2026-03-24