Fools and Idiots? - Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages

Informationen zum Autor Irina Metzler is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Department of History at Swansea University Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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 -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Pre-/conceptions: problems of definition and historiography2 From morio to fool: semantics of intellectual disability3 Cold complexions and moist humors: natural science and intellectual disability4 The infantile and the irrational: mind, soul and intellectual disability5 Non-consenting adults: laws and intellectual disability6 Fools, pets and entertainers: socio-cultural considerations of intellectual disability7 Reconsiderations: rationality, intelligence and human statusIndex

Product details

• Authors: Irina Metzler
• Assisted by: Julie Anderson (Editor), Walton Schalick (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9780719096365
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9636-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Disability History; Disability History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General