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Cover 1 Fools and Idiots? 2 Contents 6 List of Figures 7 Series editors’ foreword 8 Acknowledgements 9 List of Abbreviations 10 1. Pre-/conceptions: problems of definition and historiography 12 2. From morio to fool: semantics of intellectual disability 42 4. The infantile and the irrational: mind, soul and intellectual disability 107 5. Non-consenting adults: laws and intellectual disability 151 7. Reconsiderations: rationality, intelligence and human status 232 Select bibliography 245 Index 253 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2016,ISBN:9781784996802,Language:English,OCLC:979231081 Fools and idiots? 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'. Medieval physicians, lawyers and the schoolmen of the emerging universities wrote the texts which shaped medieval definitions of intellectual ability and its counterpart,

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Author

Irina Metzler, Julie Anderson, Walton Schalick

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781784996802

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Social Science

Updated

2026-03-24