The blind in French society from the Middle Ages to the century of Louis Braille
By: Zina Weygand ; translated by Emily-Jane Cohen.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804757683
Subjects: Blind -- France -- History
Work titles: Vivre sans voir.
Notes: Translation of: Vivre sans voir. 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. From the Middle Ages to the Classical Age : a paradoxical vision of blindness and the blind. The Middle Ages; title: The beginning of modern times; title: Groundwork for a history of blindness in the Classical Age; title: pt. 2. The eighteenth century : another way of looking at the blind. Sensationalism and sensorial impairments; title: Philanthropy and the education of the sensorially impaired; title: The move of the Quinze-Vingts and the annuity from the public treasury; title: pt. 3. The French Revolution and the blind : an affair of state. The establishment of the Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (1791-1794); title: The National Institute for Blind Workers; title: The merging of the National Institute for Blind Workers and the Hospice of the Quinze-Vingts; title: pt. 4. Blindness in France in the early nineteenth century : realities and fictions. The blind in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century; title: Social representations and literary figures of blindness in the first third of the nineteenth century; title: pt. 5. Blindness in the century of Louis Braille : from productivist utopia to cultural integration. The Quinze-Vingts under the Consulate and the Empire : implementing a productivist utopia; title: The Quinze-Vingts under the Restoration : a "memory site" of the ultra-royalist reaction; title: The Royal Institute for Blind Youth under the Restoration.