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Fools and idiots?: Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages (Disability History) by Irina Metzler; Walton Schalick; Irina Metzler is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fools and idiots?: Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages (Disability History) about?
<p>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, Irina Metzler considers a neglected field of social and medical history and makes an original contribution to the problem of a shifting concept such as 'idiocy'. <p>Emphasising the issues with imposing modern definitions of what has variously been cal
Who reads Fools and idiots?: Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages (Disability History)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Irina Metzler; Walton Schalick; Irina Metzler
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780719096372
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Social Science, Psychology, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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