Isbn: 9781350028876 - a cultural history of disability in the renaissance (the cultural histories series) (7 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorSusan Anderson is Principal Lecturer and Deputy Head of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Liam Haydon is an International Development Policy Manager at United Kingdom Research and Innova.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodies and minds disabled. A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance, covering the period from 1450 to 1650, explores evidence of the possibilities for disability that existed in the European Renaissance, observable in the literary and medicinal texts, and the family, corporate, and legal records discussed in the chapters of this volume. These chapters provide an interdisciplinary overview of the configurations of bodies, minds and collectives that have left evidence of some of the ways that normativity and its challengers interacted in the Renaissance.An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.…