A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance

A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9781350028890
ISBN-13 : 1350028894
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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance by : Susan Anderson

Download or read book A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance written by Susan Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-17 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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