The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille (Hardcover)

The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand's highly accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the eighteenth century, the enlightened age of Diderot's emblematic blind man and of the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, founded by Valentin Hauy, the great benefactor of blind people.
Weygand paints a moving picture of the blind admitted to the institutions created for them and of the conditions under which they lived, from the officially-sanctioned beggars of the medieval Quinze-Vingts to the cloth makers of the Institute for Blind Workers. She has also uncovered their fictional counterparts in an impressive array of poems, plays, and novels.The book concludes with Braille, whose invention of writing with raised dots gave blind people around the world definitive access to silent reading and to written communication.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Zina Weygand
Translators:	Emily-Jane Cohen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth
Pages:	424
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-5768-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8047-5768-2
Barcode:	9780804757683

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