Fools and Idiots? - Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages

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.

List of contents

1 Pre-/conceptions: problems of definition and historiography
2 From morio to fool: semantics of intellectual disability
3 Cold complexions and moist humors: natural science and intellectual disability
4 The infantile and the irrational: mind, soul and intellectual disability
5 Non-consenting adults: laws and intellectual disability
6 Fools, pets and entertainers: socio-cultural considerations of intellectual disability
7 Reconsiderations: rationality, intelligence and human status
Index

About the author

Irina Metzler is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Department of History at Swansea University

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Irina Metzler, Metzler Irina
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780719096372
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9637-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Disability History; Disability History Mup; Disability History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, History of Medicine, Medieval History, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval