A Social History Of Disability In The Middle Ages

Author : Irina Metzler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415822599
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages written by Irina Metzler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the social history of disability in the Middle Ages. By exploring cultural discourses of medieval disability, the volume opens up the subject of disability history prior to the modern period. The wealth, variety and significance of sources inform how law, work, age and charity affected medieval disability.

Author : Irina Metzler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134217382
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability in Medieval Europe written by Irina Metzler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe. Examining a popular era that is of great interest to many historians and researchers, Irene Metzler presents a theoretical framework of disability and explores key areas such as: medieval theoretical concepts theology and natural philosophy notions of the physical body medical theory and practice. Bringing into play the modern day implications of medieval thought on the issue, this is a fascinating and informative addition to the research studies of medieval history, history of medicine and disability studies scholars the English-speaking world over.

Author : Irina Metzler
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784996181
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fools and idiots? written by Irina Metzler and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, it 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.

Author : Cameron Hunt McNabb
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1950192733
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Disability Sourcebook written by Cameron Hunt McNabb and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of disability studies significantly contributes to contemporary discussions of the marginalization of and social justice for individuals with disabilities. However, what of disability in the past? The Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe explores what medieval texts have to say about disability, both in their own time and for the present. This interdisciplinary volume on medieval Europe combines historical records, medical texts, and religious accounts of saints' lives and miracles, as well as poetry, prose, drama, and manuscript images to demonstrate the varied and complicated attitudes medieval societies had about disability. Far from recording any monolithic understanding of disability in the Middle Ages, these contributions present a striking range of voices-to, from, and about those with disabilities-and such diversity only confirms how disability permeated (and permeates) every aspect of life. The Medieval Disability Sourcebook is designed for use inside the undergraduate or graduate classroom or by scholars interested in learning more about medieval Europe as it intersects with the field of disability studies. Most texts are presented in modern English, though some are preserved in Middle English and many are given in side-by-side translations for greater study. Each entry is prefaced with an academic introduction to disability within the text as well as a bibliography for further study. This sourcebook is the first in a proposed series focusing on disability in a wide range of premodern cultures, histories, and geographies.

Author : Dr Joshua R Eyler
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 140947593X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability in the Middle Ages written by Dr Joshua R Eyler and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such standard medieval texts as the Arthurian Legend, The Canterbury Tales and Old Norse Sagas, providing an accessible entry point to the field of medieval disability studies to medievalists. The essays explore a wide variety of disabilities, including the more traditionally accepted classifications of blindness and deafness, as well as perceived disabilities such as madness, pregnancy and age. Adopting a ground-breaking new approach to the study of disability in the medieval period, this provocative book will interest medievalists and scholars of disability throughout history.

Author : Jenni Kuuliala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503551852
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood Disability and Social Integration in the Middle Ages written by Jenni Kuuliala and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers new insights into medieval disability studies by analysing miracle testimonies from canonization processes as sources for the study of medieval attitudes to and understanding of childhood physical impairments: how they were defined, and the social consequences of childhood disability on the family, on the community, and on children themselves. In these texts, laypeople from different social groups carefully described events leading to children's miraculous cures of physical impairments, as well as the conditions themselves. They thus provide an exceptionally rich (yet hitherto unexplored) window into the ways in which medieval society defined, explained, and understood children's impairments. Besides simply describing disabilities and miraculous cures, these testimonies also reveal various aspects of everyday experiences and communal attitudes towards impaired children. The few testimonies by the children themselves offer fascinating insights into personal experiences of physical disability and how disability affected a child's socialization and the formation of identity. This study thus aims to tease apart the often-complex ways in which medieval society both viewed physical differences and how it chose to (re)construct these differences in the discourse of the miraculous, as well as in everyday life.

Author : Joshua Eyler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350028746
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages written by Joshua Eyler and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michel Mollat
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300027891
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poor in the Middle Ages written by Michel Mollat and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Irina Metzler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134217390
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability in Medieval Europe written by Irina Metzler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe. Examining a popular era that is of great interest to many historians and researchers, Irene Metzler presents a theoretical framework of disability and explores key areas such as: medieval theoretical concepts theology and natural philosophy notions of the physical body medical theory and practice. Bringing into play the modern day implications of medieval thought on the issue, this is a fascinating and informative addition to the research studies of medieval history, history of medicine and disability studies scholars the English-speaking world over.

Author : Henri-Jacques Stiker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472037811
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Disability written by Henri-Jacques Stiker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to attempt to provide a framework for analyzing disability through the ages, Henri-Jacques Stiker's now classic A History of Disability traces the history of western cultural responses to disability, from ancient times to the present. The sweep of the volume is broad; from a rereading and reinterpretation of the Oedipus myth to legislation regarding disability, Stiker proposes an analytical history that demonstrates how societies reveal themselves through their attitudes towards disability in unexpected ways. Through this history, Stiker examines a fundamental issue in contemporary Western discourse on disability: the cultural assumption that equality/sameness/similarity is always desired by those in society. He highlights the consequences of such a mindset, illustrating the intolerance of diversity and individualism that arises from placing such importance on equality. Working against this thinking, Stiker argues that difference is not only acceptable, but that it is desirable, and necessary. This new edition of the classic volume features a new foreword by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder that assesses the impact of Stiker’s history on Disability Studies and beyond, twenty years after the book’s translation into English. The book will be of interest to scholars of disability, historians, social scientists, cultural anthropologists, and those who are intrigued by the role that culture plays in the development of language and thought surrounding people with disabilities.