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. -- .
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