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A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages - Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment (Paperback)
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A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages - Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages? How did people
become disabled? Did welfare support exist? This book discusses
social and cultural factors affecting the lives of medieval
crippled, deaf, mute and blind people, those nowadays collectively
called "disabled." Although the word did not exist then, many of
the experiences disabled people might have today can already be
traced back to medieval social institutions and cultural attitudes.
This volume informs our knowledge of the topic by investigating the
impact medieval laws had on the social position of disabled people,
and conversely, how people might become disabled through judicial
actions; ideas of work and how work could both cause disability
through industrial accidents but also provide continued ability to
earn a living through occupational support networks; the disabling
effects of old age and associated physical deteriorations; and the
changing nature of attitudes towards welfare provision for the
disabled and the ambivalent role of medieval institutions and
charity in the support and care of disabled people.
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