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Fools and idiots?: Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages (Disability History) by Irina Metzler; Walton Schalick; Irina Metzler is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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, disability. In studying such texts, which form part of our contemporary scientific and cultural heritage, we gain a better understanding of which people were considered to be intellectually disabled, and how their participation and inclusion in society differed from the situation today. This book will be required reading for anyone studying or working in disability studies, history of medicine, social history and the history of ideas.

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Author

Irina Metzler; Walton Schalick; Irina Metzler

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781784996802

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Social Science