This volume informs our knowledge of the topic by investigating the impact medieval laws had on the social position of disabled people, and conversely, how people might become disabled through judicial actions; ideas of work and how work could both cause disability through industrial accidents but also provide continued ability to earn a living through occupational support networks; the disabling effects of old age and associated physical deteriorations; and the changing nature of attitudes towards welfare provision for the disabled and the ambivalent role of medieval institutions and charity in the support and care of disabled people.
This volume informs our knowledge of the topic by investigating the impact medieval laws had on the social position of disabled people, and conversely, how people might become disabled through judicial actions; ideas of work and how work could both cause disability through industrial accidents but also provide continued ability to earn a living through occupational support networks; the disabling effects of old age and associated physical deteriorations; and the changing nature of attitudes towards welfare provision for the disabled and the ambivalent role of medieval institutions and charity in the support and care of disabled people.
A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages: Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment
336A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages: Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment
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ISBN-13: | 9781138952386 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 09/16/2015 |
Series: | Routledge Studies in Cultural History |
Pages: | 336 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d) |