A cultural history of disability in the Renaissance / edited by Susan Anderson and Liam Haydon.
"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 possibilites for disability that e...
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| Language: | English |
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2020.
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| Series: | Cultural history of disability ;
volume 3. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Susan Anderson and Liam Haydon
- Atypical bodies: constructing (ab)normalcy in the Renaissance / Simone Chess
- Mobility impairment: the body corporate, charity, and injury / Liam Haydon and Edmond Smith
- Chronic pain and illness: understanding pain in the Renaissance / Adleen Crapo
- Blindness: diverse approaches to a complex phenomenon in the 15th and 16th centuries / Bianca Frohne
- Deafness: deafnesses and silences in Shakespeare's England / Jennifer Nelson
- Speech: speaking well and ill in the Renaissance / Susan Anderson
- Learning difficulties: the idiot and the outsider in the Renaissance / Emily Lathrop
- Mental health issues: madness in the Renaissance / Sonya Freeman Loftis