{"product_id":"fools-and-idiots-intellectual-disability-in-the-middle-ages-disability-history-9780719096372","title":"Fools and Idiots Intellectual Disability in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombines 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘For this meticulous work in organizing evidence and arguments presented by scholars in multiple fields and languages, and focused on numerous geographies (though with a special bias towards England), specialists in the fields of disability, madness, folly, reason and unreason, and even childhood will find this work to be invaluable. This book is an opening gambit, not a definitive answer in the field, but it is a gambit for which future scholars will be very grateful indeed.’\u003cbr\u003eAnne M. Koenig, University of South Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A superbly researched addition to a largely unexplored field.'        \u003cbr\u003eDisability   Studies Quarterly\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Pre-\/conceptions: problems of definition and historiography\u003cbr\u003e2 From \u003ci\u003emorio\u003c\/i\u003e to fool: semantics of intellectual disability\u003cbr\u003e3 Cold complexions and moist humors: natural science and intellectual disability\u003cbr\u003e4 The infantile and the irrational: mind, soul and intellectual disability\u003cbr\u003e5 Non-consenting adults: laws and intellectual disability\u003cbr\u003e6 Fools, pets and entertainers: socio-cultural considerations of intellectual disability\u003cbr\u003e7 Reconsiderations: rationality, intelligence and human status\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037352526167,"sku":"9780719096372","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719096372.jpg?v=1750935404","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fools-and-idiots-intellectual-disability-in-the-middle-ages-disability-history-9780719096372","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}