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Disability in medieval Europe : thinking about physical impairment during the High Middle Ages, c. 1100-1400

Author: Irina Metzler
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Series: Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture, 9.
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"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  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Irina Metzler
ISBN: 0415365031 9780415365031
OCLC Number: 59756104
Description: vi, 355 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Title: Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture, 9.
Responsibility: Irina Metzler.
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"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.

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