Sculpsit: Contemporary Artists on Sculpture and Beyond (Transcript) - Softcover

Mey, Kerstin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719061660 ISBN 13: 9780719061660

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Kerstin Mey is Lecturer in History and Theory of Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719061660
• ISBN 13: 9780719061660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144