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A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance - The Cultural Histories Series Susan Anderson
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A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance - The Cultural Histories Series
Susan Anderson
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.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 17, 2023 |
| ISBN13 | 9781350028876 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 208 |
| Dimensions | 173 × 251 × 16 mm · 620 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Anderson, Dr Susan (Sheffiled Hallam University, UK) |
| Editor | Haydon, Dr Liam (United Kingdom Research and Innovation, UK) |
