Disability in medieval Europe
Subtitle: thinking about physical impairment during the High Middle Ages, c. 1100-1400
By: Irina Metzler.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: People with disabilities -- Europe -- History; Abnormalities, Human -- Social aspects -- Europe; Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500
Description: "This is the first book that comprehensively describes disability and physical impairment in the Middle Ages. What attitudes did the medieval world have towards disabled people? Was every physical impairment a punishment for sin? And how did impairment affect the normal, everyday life of medieval disabled people? Disability in Medieval Europe presents a serious account of these and other aspects of the cultural construction of disability in that period of European history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.